A Chinese porcelain small bottle vase, Kangxi period, with pear-shaped body and tall cylindrical flaring neck, painted in underglaze blue with the 'love chase' scene with three equestrian figures and an attendant approaching the bridge in a river landscape scene with a fisherman in a boat amongst overhanging pine trees, rockwork and terrace of a building, the neck with prunus flower sprays between bands of triangular diaper, 13.5cm high, and a Chinese porcelain Kangxi period bell-shaped coffee cup painted with flowers and rockwork, 7.5cm highProvenance: The vase formerly in the Avalon Collection; the cup formerly in the collection of an English gentleman Cf. A similar love chasing vase is illustrated by Sir Harry Garner in ‘Oriental Blue and White’, London, 1973, pl. 69A. Garner described the bottle vase as depicting ‘of a man and woman hunting a hare, which for some reason is generally described as a “love chase”’, and going on to describe it as an example of ‘K’ang Hsi blue and white at its most glowing…’ (p.46). A further example may be found in the Frick Collection, see ‘The Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VII, Porcelains’, Princeton University Press, 1974, p.30, inventory number 65.8.191Bonhams New Bond Street, 6th November 2014, Lot 126Bottle vase: professional repair to a clean break to the lower part of the neck, otherwise good. Cup: No significant issues.