Chinese Vessel with Winter Landscape Motif

White cylinder holds a snowy mountain scene in soft grey ink.

This painted porcelain vessel with winter landscape motif is from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, and dates to the 20th century. Winter scenes with snow, bare branches and mountains are a long-standing theme in Chinese painting, and porcelain painters often adapted such landscapes to the curved surface of a vessel. Straight-sided cylindrical pot with a thick rolled rim, glazed bright white. Painted in grey and black tones, it shows snow-covered hills, pines and a few tiny touches of red and blue, wrapping all the way around. It is 6.8 inches high and 6.75 in diameter.

Winter, neatly rolled up and set on a table.