A WUCAI BALUSTER 'JIAGUAN JINJUE' VASE Shunzhi Painted and enamelled with a boy attendant presenting a tray supporting a jue to a scholar on a garden veranda, below a band of cracked ice, the body inscribed jiaguan jinjue in underglaze blue. 19.5cm (7 5/8in) high. Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清順治 五彩人物故事圖瓶 「加官進爵」款 Provenance: Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, 16th July 2022 (collector's notes) Published and Illustrated: M. White, Living at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection, vol.4, n.p., 2023, p.298 The Chinese idiom jiaguan jinjue 加官進爵 (promotion to higher rank or nobility) forms a rebus with the archaic bronze vessel known as a jue. This subject matter was popular throughout the Transitional period. A blue and white jar with a related scene of an official being presented a bronze jue, circa 1620-1644, is illustrated in J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p.381, no.12:75. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing