Fine Blue and White Beaker Vase the flared upper section decorated with continuous figural scene of a court official accompanied by his servants standing beside his palanquin as he approaches a herder and his ox beside a riverbank, a band of lingzhi amid scrolling tendrils around the central zone and the base encircled by a band of pendant stiff leaves, all below a floral meander repeated around the rim. {Approximate height, 18 1/4 inches}. (Hairline crack)