A large Chinese transitional blue and white octagonal vase, 1644-1661, Shunzhi period. Well painted with kingfishers and insects above a pond, the base flat, gold-lacquer repairs. 30.5 cm high. Provenance: R and v Tregaskis, Sydney 1998; ex John Hilliard collection, London. See S. Little 'Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period', New York 1984, cat no 28, p78, for a very similar example