Chinese Blue and White Vase with Gilt-Bronze Stand. The pear-shaped body rising to a tapering neck with a garlic bulb below a flared mouth rim, finely painted in brilliant shades of cobalt with two scholars seated in a lush landscape with their attendants and horses, all below a floral scroll band at the shoulder, the base with a six-character Chongzheng mark, fitted with a gilt-bronze stand. {Height 14.6 inches (37 cm)}.