A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE MEIPING QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

of elegant shouldered form, painted with classic lotus scrolls in copper-red and underglaze-blue around the body, the neck and foot with further petal-shaped and lappet foliate bands within double-line borders

The vase is broken into several pieces and restored. The colours of the vase are of a slightly softer tone than the illustration suggests.
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This vase is comparable with meiping of the Qianlong period painted with a lotus scroll in this colour combination of copper-red and underglaze-blue. See a vase in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. III, Taipei, 1981, pl. 20; and a meiping sold in these rooms, 16th June 1999, lot 801.