The vase is decorated on one side with a courtier flanked by two attendants, beside an immortal holding a scepter standing on billowing clouds, and on the reverse with a lady seated in a garden beside a rabbit on further clouds, all above a band of boys amidst lotus scroll on the waisted lower section. The base is inscribed with an apocryphal Jiajing mark. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) high

Provenance: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1925 (Rogers Fund).

Christie's. Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza