16th century Ming dynastyWell potted with rounded shoulders and a tapering baluster body on a slightly flaring foot, finely painted in rich blue tones with a continuous peony scroll with an undulating leafy stem bearing four large blooms variously shown in profile, full-faced and pendent, between two narrow bands of classic scroll, the shoulder with a four-pointed trefoil collar alternately enclosing phoenix with peony and chrysanthemum below a further classic scroll band, all above upright lotus panels, the character deng incised on the neck Height 24cmA very similar example: 10 Dec 2019 Paris Sotheby’s Art d’Asie Lot 2