A Partial Chinese Imperial Falangcai European-Subject Porcelain Vase Qianlong four-character seal mark in blue and of the period Reduced from original bottle form and capped with silver mount; the ovoid body enameled with a continuous pastoral scene of a European woman in a white chemise and broad-brimmed yellow straw hat holding a blue sack with a young child at her lap, attended by a young maiden in a lilac dress with yellow drapery across the shoulder; the tufted grass and rocky landscape continuing to show a valley, distant hills and a blossoming shrub on the obverse. Height 4 7/8 inches, width overall 4 inches. Provenance: Herschel V. Johnson Collection A vase painted with European subjects is illustrated in Williamson,Book of Famille Rose, pl. XI. Also reference a bottle vase at the Freer Gallery of Art enameled with a Chinese woman and two children with iconography symbolic of the wish to bear high-ranking sons, accession no. F1954.127a-e. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Condition Report The neck missing, the cut down rim set with a silver-gilt mount, the gilding now fugitive, 4 short hairline cracks (approx. 1 1/4 in. long). Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact and Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. Please contact the specialist department to request further information or additional images that may be available.