A famille verte baluster vase and a cover

The vase is decorated with a continuous scene of scholars amongst pavilions, fishermen at work in river landscape, all below a ruyi-head and squared scroll band. The scene is accompanied by a four-line poem and signed Hui An, with an iron-red and gilt seal and an artemisia leaf. The base with a double circle in underglaze blue. The associated domed cover is decorated with floral panels and is surmounted by a Buddhist lion.

Provenance: Christie's London, 15 December 2016, 'Selected works of art from the The Edward James Foundation', lot 133.

Catalogue notes: The poem may be translated as 'carp jump through the golden rippled water, and float while the warm breeze blows over the waves'.

Condition: two star cracks to the interior (the larger approx. 5 cm.); chips and frits to the foot; enamel flaws. Approx 1/4 of the rim of the cover restored and ovepainted, unable to tell if composite; frits to the rim.