Porcelain vase ‘Birds in the Garden’, 20th century

A large porcelain vase with an oval body and a flaring mouth with a lobed rim. The vase is decorated with a continuous scene of a lush garden beside a pond, filled with lotuses, water lilies and flowering branches, in which large birds play, rest and flutter. Both the base and the mouth are decorated with decorative borders of ruyis and lotus leaves. The base bears a six-character seal. 

Height: 92.5 cm; Mouth diameter: 27 cm; Base diameter: 22 cm (approx.)