Description

White porcelain with transparent glaze on exterior and stopping high on neck on interior; base glazed; footrim unglazed.  Sprigged and overglaze polychrome enamel decoration in greens, aubergine, yellow and black with elements reserved in white in famille noire palette: exterior sides and neck with scene of mounted man with fan followed by servant with carrying-pole across shoulders with a set of books at one end and a bundled qin and sword pendant from the other end travelling though a grassy landscape beneath a knarled pine growing from rocks at left toward an ornamental rock at right - grouping of rocks with small plants below scene at righ; scene with painted and modelled detailing.