A RARE WUCAI ROULEAU VASEShunzhi The tall cylindrical vessel vibrantly decorated around the exterior with craggy rocks issuing dense chrysanthemum and peony, two birds in flight, all against a red petal-pattern ground and between floral patterned borders, the waisted neck with floral sprays. 39.5cm (15 1/2in) high. 清順治 五彩花鳥棒槌瓶 Provenance: Priestly & Ferraro Chinese Art, London, 10 July 2006 來源：倫敦古董商Priestly & Ferraro Chinese Art，2006年7月10日 The dense decoration of flowers on red ground, as found on the present lot is rare. See a jar with related decoration of flowers and rocks against a red diaper-pattern ground, Shunzhi, illustrated by T.Canepa and K.Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain , London, 2021, p.345. The same jar is illustrated in Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection , Alexandria, 1990, no.60, where the author notes that 'some pieces of this type were made for the Indian or Middle Eastern markets. Friedrich Volker asserts two red rolwagens were given to an Indian King in 1648'; see ibid ., p.107. According to T.Volker in Porcelain and the Dutch East Indiapany: As Recorded in the Dagh Registers of Batavia Castle, Those of Hirado and Deshima and other Contemporary Papers , Leiden, 1971, p.105, in 1649 the Dutch wrote to Batavia on 31 May 'that they intend to present the King [of Surat] with...2 large red rolwagens with leaf work in relief and flowers...' The present lot, also with a predominately red tone, could therefore, have been made for the Indian or Middle Eastern market.