A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE POWDER BLUE-GROUND SOLDIER VASE.A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE POWDER-BLUE GROUND SOLDIER VASE. Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period. Of tapering oviform with waisted neck and flaring rim, the body reserved with four large quatrefoil panels each enclosing a different scene of groups of ladies viewed across a courtyard, some visible through open windows, and others crossing bridges, or reclining on a garden veranda, above a narrow band of flower heads within hexagonal panels, suspending pendant lappet-form panels alternately enclosing a qilin, each differently positioned, and plum blossom branches, all above a further narrow decorative band, the shoulders with a band of ruyi head panels each enclosing an assemblage of antique vases and bronze vessels, alternating with eight smaller pendant lappet each enclosing a Buddhist emblem, a band of upright lappets panels encircling the neck decorated with floral patterns, 90cm H, 50cm diameter. 清康熙 灑藍地青花繪瓶 Tall jars and vases of this type are often referred to as soldier or dragoon vases, after the famous group of 151 Chinese blue and white porcelains which Augustus II the Strong of Saxony received in 1717 from Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, in exchange for 600 Saxon dragoons.