the jar H:46cm. overallA Fine 'rose-verte' Three Vase Garniture, Yongzhengcomprising one baluster jar and cover and a pair of beaker vases, each richly enamelled, in characteristic bright palette, with a butterfly above a flowering peony tree and a fruiting and flowering pomegranate, their gnarled trunks growing beside stylish garden rockwork, between a lappet border on the angled foot, and a pink ground flowerhead band at the top, the domed cover of the jar with onion knopOriginally the property of a family in the East of HollandThis unusual shape of vase and beaker, which is angled above the foot, derives from a Japanese Imari form of the seventeenth century. This type only seems to appear in fine Chinese Export porcelain during the Yongzheng reign period. See Dr. G.C.Williamson, The book of Famille Rose, London 1927, plate LIV, for a 'famille rose' three piece garniture with chickens , a single ‘rose verte‘beaker vasewith figures, and a pair of fine ruby ground jars and covers, all of closely comparable forms, in British collections.In overall good condition.