A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'MYTHICAL BEASTS' BALUSTER VASE

SHUNZHI 1644-61

Painted with a qilin, lion dog and third creature, possibly a xiezhi, they sit in a landscape amidst rocks and plantain, with mountainous peaks rising from a river in the distance, the short neck decorated with a band of leaves, 27.5cm.

Provenance: acquired in the 1980s.