Vase

Vase with baluster body, high shoulders, cylindrical neck, and spreading mouth and base; painted on the biscuit with famille verte enamels in a composite black ground. Design, rocks and prunus tree in blossom. By the rocks are bamboos, and in the prunus branches are birds. Mark of the Chenghua period (1465-1487 AD) in six characters in underglaze blue, but the vase is probably of Kangxi date or 19th century.