The vase has two leaf-shaped reserves, each charmingly painted with children at play.
The panels are set on a cracked ice ground decorated in reverse technique with lotus and scattered flower heads.
The drum-shaped cover is decorated with lotus on cracked ice, and also with swastika symbols; the flat base unglazed, 30.5cm.
The 1690 Devonshire Schedule, an inventory listing an immense bequest from Elizabeth, Countess of Devonshire (1619-1689), to her daughter Anne, Countess of Exeter (1649-1703), records under ‘Large plain China….A small blue and white Jarr eleven inches high with a hollow fflatt cover.’
