An extremely fine three vase Garniture, Yongzheng period (1722-1735) Comprising of one baluster jar and cover and a pair of beaker vases Each vase is richly enamelled in characteristic bright palette Depicting a flowering peony tree and a fruiting pomegranate growing beside garden rockwork Originally the property of a family in the east of Holland This unusual shape of vase and beaker, which is angled above the foot, derives from a Japanese Imari form of the seventeenth century. This type only seems to appear in fine Chinese Export porcelain during the Yongzheng reign period (1722-1735) Literature: DR.G.C.Williamson, The book of Famille Rose, London 1927, plate LIV