A square-sectioned, Chinese, porcelain vase with rectangular base & mouth lavishly painted on all sides with white & orange. The neck and shoulder form a wide based hourglass shape where it inclines towards the base. The major decorative elements consist of large illustrations of robed figures in conversation in courtyards with smaller panels of the same, as well as monochromatic orange landscape scenes. The remaining spaces are filled with varieties of floral scroll with thin-bodied orange and gold hued Chi dragon affixed on either side of the neck. H: 10 5/8" (27 cm) Condition: In good condition, only few glaze level crack to the interior of the rim Provenance: property from the estate of Judith Applegate, Princeton ,NJ