A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE `FIGURAL` OVOID JAR TRANSITIONAL C.1640 Painted with a dignitary and his attendants in a fenced garden, with willow and plantain trees amidst rockwork, all below a band of stylised leaf lappets, 18.8cm. The subject is a ceremony called the jia guan jin jue, which is to commemorate an official`s promotion to the rank of nobility.