A Fahua Decorated Chinese Vase – Cobalt Blue –19th/20th
December 2013 Auction by Far East Asian Art

This beautiful vase is made with the techniques known as Fahua – see footnote #1 below. The vase has low relief designs of bamboo, plum blossoms and flowering bushes. The vase measures 6 5/8” high and iw 5 ½” diameter at the widest part of the shoulder.

It has a zitan wood cover – see footnote #2. The cover is beautifully carved in a traditional pattern of scrollwork. The cover does not perfectly fit the vase – so it is most probably a replacement for an earlier lid...