A blue and white vase, Qing dynasty, with Qianlong seal mark.

The globular body rising from a short spreading foot to a tall elegant waisted neck, moulded around the body with double filets and a further single filet at the stepped shoulder, painted in rich 'heaped and piled' cobalt-blue tones with a composite flower scroll band, all between lotus-lappet and classic scroll bands at the base and a ruyi band at the shoulder, the neck with stiff leaf and keyfret bands below a wave band at the rim. Height 38 cm.

Chip by rim.

Provenance

From the Collection of Louise Dorotea Lamm (1872-1950), thence by descent.

Literature

A closely related example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 233.

There is one in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, published in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol. 15, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 2;

Four vases are illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. III, London, 1986, pl. 2564, one with an elaborate nineteenth century Ottoman gilt-metal cover.

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