Chinese Literati Style Columnar Vase with Makers Mark Depicting Poetic Verse and Bamboo and Vine Motif

White porcelain slab painted with blue stems that seem to sway.

This literati-style columnar porcelain vase with maker's mark, poetic verse, and bamboo and vine motif is from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, and is contemporary. It is porcelain & cobalt paint. Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province has been the center of Chinese porcelain production for many centuries and is often called the porcelain capital of China. Tall rectangular porcelain panel painted in cobalt blue with a few slender stems and leaves, and a small insect near the top. A column of calligraphy and a red seal sit at right. It stands in a dark wood base. It is 7.5 inches wide, 7.5 deep and 18 high.

Few brushstrokes, and not one of them wasted.