This vase is in the same style; shape; and size with an early sold piece by Sotheby's in year 2015. Here is a quotation of introduction from a website author Ms. Alain R.Truong:
" of octagonal section and generous proportion, the ovoid body sweeping up to an angled shoulder and surmounted by a waisted neck and galleried gilt rim, all supported on a splayed foot, the waisted neck superbly covered with an even sea-green celadon glaze, finely carved in low relief on both of the main sides with two stylised fish attached to a chime and detailed with intertwining lotus scrolls issuing clusters of leaves, flanked by a pair of gilt scroll handles, the body decorated on the four main sides with convex peach-shaped panels outlined with gilt, the panels delicately enamelled in the famille-rose palette with leisurely scenes depicting boys at play, one with two boys holding a lantern in a courtyard next to three further boys, one holding a vase of emerging flowers, another with three boys in a courtyard, two boys pressing their palms against their ears whilst one squats and lights a firework with one palm held against his ear, another with a boy holding a halberd with a ruyi-shaped ornament attached to it, flanked by two further boys in a courtyard with iron-red railings and jagged rockwork in the background, the other with three boys crouching around and playing with two quails perched on the grassy ground, an older boy carrying a younger boy standing next to them watching, all against a white ground densely decorated in underglaze blue with lotus blooms wreathed by meandering foliate scrolls bearing feathery leaves, the lively washes of cobalt-blue accentuated with gilt highlights, the interior and base enamelled turquoise, the base incised and filled in with gilt with a six-character seal mark - 44 cm., 17 3/8 in."
