The qing emperor kangxi colorful anaglyph square bottle hollow out characters

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Kangxi.

Of rectangular baluster form with a spreading foot and neck， the body with double walled panels with pierced bee-hive trellis， around a painted walled garden scene with details of figures and trees modelled in high relief， each face of the neck with the trellis set around a panel of a boy modelled in high relief， and the foot similarly decorated but with animals， the angular sides painted with iron-red and white prunus florets reserved on a green dotted ground， occasionally divided by horizontal key fret bands， chevron borders and lotus scrolls， 60cm H.

清康熙 五彩镂空人物浮雕四方瓶

The present vase in size， decoration and complexity is extremely rare. A vase of similar form with relief panels but no reticulation is illustrated in du Boulay， The Taft Museum: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art， 1995，`p 649， no 1931.94 and two smaller versions of the Taft Museum piece from the collection at Fontainebleau is illustrated in Scheurleer， Chinesisches und japanisches Pozellan in europaeischen Fassungen， p 279， fig 206. For a jardinere with similar decoration see Ming Wilson， Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics， 1998， no 69.