A Rare Inscribed Blue and White Double Gourd Vase, Late Ming dynastythe upper bulb of circular section set on the square lower body, which is well painted in strong blue with the Eight Daoist Immortals among misty crags, below four roundels at the corners of the shoulder, each of which encloses a character, below a diaper band at the waist, the onion shaped upper section painted with two long sleeved dancers and two scholars on a garden terrace, beneath four further character roundels and a band of contrasting diapers at the mouth, H:31cmProvenance: Collection of Count Robert de Billy, friend of Marcel Proust. Robert de Billy was French Ambassador to Japan between 1927 and 1929.来源：法国外交官罗伯特·德·比利伯爵旧藏，其曾在1927至1929年担任法国驻日本大使，亦为法国著名作家、《追忆似水年华》作者马赛尔·普鲁斯特的挚友。