A FINE SMALL CLOISONNE MEIPING QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

of baluster form rising from a wide foot to a waisted neck, finely decorated to the exterior in cloisonné enamels with three large stylised lotus blooms amid scrolling leafy stems, below an interlinked band of ruyi-heads enclosing lotus flowers at the shoulder and above an archaistic upright lappet band at the foot

Cloisonné vases of this small size are quite rare.  See two comparable vases, but of a larger size, in the Pierre Uldry Collection, illustrated by Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinesisches Cloisonné – Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1985, pl. 122 and 123.  Compare also an inspiration to this vase, decorated with scrolling lotus blooms and attributed to the Ming Dynasty, of a slightly larger size, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 9.