A Chinese blue and white jardiniere

Reference: ART1005143

The exterior is decorated with two moulded lion-mask handles to the sides, the body decorated in three registers with a continuous scene of scholars in a fenced garden at the bottom, a honeycomb band interspersed with bird and peach cartouches at the waist, and an interlocking triangular band above, interrupted by an apocryphal Jiajing mark. The rim is decorated with eight beribonned precious objects.