Antique Chinese unusual double-gourd monochrome porcelain vase. The body with circular reserves in the center of either side of the vase. On one side is a highly raised and detailed scene of noblemen and a horse with a carriage and attendants. In the background is a pavilion roof and mountains. On the other side, a maiden sits in a garden beneath the moon with two attendants. All the genre scenes are painted with exquisite detail in gold and the negative space (like the rest of the vase) is glazed a sky-blue and mottled with dark blue, red and purple specks. The vases foot is inset with a similarly treated raised gold on bronze color six character Qianlong mark on a mottled blue glazed ground.

Provenance: from the collection of Micheal Smith.

Size: H 7.25" x W 4.375" D 1.75"