the ovoid body rising from a domed foot to a cylindrical neck and galleried rim, painted around the body with an aristocratic lady dressed in pink and purple robes and gilt hair ornaments sitting at marble-top writing table positioning a sheet of paper or silk with one hand and holding a brush with the other, an inkstone and floral arrangement in a gu-form vase at one end of the table, a boy eagerly watching at the other end, an elegantly dressed attendant standing by with a fan, further ceramics and plants completing the scene, at the neck a beribboned pair of scrolls amidst lingzhi, the base unglazed

New York Private Collection.

The vase is in good condition with only minor expected wear to the enamels and scattered minute iron spots (both as illustrated).
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