Polychrome porcelain vase decorated with figures and cranes, of scroll form tapering above the shoulder, the top of the neck ringed. Decorated with a dignitary wearing wide pleated clothes and holding a fan in his hand, surrounded by two children, one with a basket in his hand feeding two geese. In the sky, three geese in flight. On the base, the sheng de tang zhi mark "made for the Hall of the Preservation of Virtue", in four-character iron red. China, Republic - Minguo period (1912 - 1949) H. 24 cm