Dimensions: 12-3/8" H x 6-3/8" W PROVENANCE: From Private estate collections of Jullias Phillips (1923 - 2017), Marietta, Georgia. When WWII started, Jullias worked at the Charleston Navy Yard helping build ships to protect our country and the world. They moved to Charleston, one of America oldest city with many historical building and antiques. Start from here, Jullias love to collect porcelains and many other antiques, and many year later they came back to Marietta, Georgia. Chinese Qing Dynasty Period, polychrome landscape squared amphora vase. Potted in a amphora shaped vase, large, thick and tall, globular body, slighty oval lower body, rounded shoulder concealing gracefully to a prominent cylindrical neck, two archaic pattern flanked from the neck to shoulder, raised with short splayed foot base rim and slight concave. The exterior decorated with hand-painting in clean white under glazed base color which contrast against the polychrome design. Meaning "decorated in many colors" as opposed to "decorated in one color" (mono-chrome). A plain white piece is thus both "un-decorated", in Chinese porcelain possibly a "blanc-de-Chine" and a "white monochrome". Delicately fine depicted of many child and their elder in various pursuit beside peace lishui waves, below dense tree, mountain rock, all in salubrious landscape. The colors are harmonious, balanced, elegant and exquisite, the composition is sophisticated, simply a feast for the eye. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. Mark on base, a six under glazed blue seal script characters reign mark, Made in The Years of QianLong Reign Period of Great Qing Dynasty.