Baluster covered vase with a scholar official and his servants in a landscape; Baluster-shaped porcelain vase with a slightly spreading neck; painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze red; green; yellow; aubergine and black. On the wall a person of dignity on a terrace in front of a pavilion in a landscape with plants; a banana plant; rocks and mountains. Behind him a servant with a fan; a second and third clerk carry a book. Blooming peonies on a neck near a rock. The bottom is unglazed. Transitional porcelain with enamel colors; Jean Theodore Royer; anonymous; China; c. 1645 - c. 1660; Ming-dynasty (1368-1644) / Qing-dynasty (1644-1912) / Chongzhen-period (1628-1644) / Shunzhi-period (1644-1661); porcelain (material); glaze; cobalt (mineral); vitrification; h 17.9 cm d 5.6 cm d 11.6 cm d 7.2 cm