A LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE `FIGURAL` ROULEAU VASE The long cylindrical body painted with square panels enclosing various figural scenes, including a messenger delivering news of a battle to a general, a boy attendant sweeping the floor of a scholar`s studio, ladies admiring the sounds of a guqin from behind a garden wall, and scenes of officials in discussion, the rounded shoulder with quatrefoil panels enclosing floral sprays and bundles of texts reserved on a floral diaper ground, the tall cylindrical neck with a horizontal raised band bordered by key fret borders, ruyi heads and scrolling decorations, the protruding rim with a chevron band painted to the exterior, 79.5cm high 青花人物故事圖紋 棒槌瓶