A Chinese famille rose porcelain rouleau vase, mark of Qianlong but probably Republic period, the gently swollen cylindrical body painted with figures seated and standing in a garden at a table, drinking beneath a tree hung with lanterns, opposing four lines of black text and three red seals, the neck with red bats and black foliate detail beneath a key fret rim, iron red enamelled four character mark to base, height 46.5cm.