A Rare Blue and White ’Shou’ Vase Of rouleau form with slightly tapered body, sloping shoulder with a straight neck and everted rim decorated overall in underglaze-blue with a wide variety of different shou characters freely drawn in nineteen loose rows approximately 703 shou characters in cobalt blue rendered in various forms of seal script, all between keyfret borders, the shoulder with a broad band of prunus on a triangular work ground from which further flower heads emanate, on the neck a further band of keyfret and ruyi the rim with a band of triangular work, the glazed base with a double circle in blue. Period: Kangxi (1662-1722). Height 47.5 cm.