AN IMPORTANT AND VERY FINE INSCRIBED FALANGCAI ENAMELLED 'LOFTY MOUNTAIN' MALLET-SHAPED VASE

AN IMPORTANT AND VERY FINE INSCRIBED FALANGCAI ENAMELLED \'LOFTY MOUNTAIN\' MALLET-SHAPED VASE

YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)

The rounded body of the vase is finely potted with a broad base and a rounded shoulder under a high cylindrical neck. The exterior is superbly enamelled with a continuous landscape scene that is finely detailed to depict a scholar standing beneath a tall gnarled pine tree and holding a bound book in offering to an elderly scholar holding a long staff in one hand. The figures are standing on a promontary with distant craggy mountains partially shrouded with misty clouds in the far distance. The reverse side with a poem in xiaozhuan, small seal script, followed by an iron-red seal mark, Yunxiu, \'Cloudy mountain peaks\'

7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high, wood stand