A BLUE AND WHITE 'RAMS' HEAD' VASE MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG

modelled after an archaic bronze hu vase, the globular body rising to a slightly flaring neck, the vase divided into four horizontal registers by three double-filets, the central band painted with a quatrelobed scroll brackets alternating with a stylised floret, set between a lotus scroll on the shoulders with various views of the flowers, and crashing waves around the base, the sloping shoulders set with three moulded ram heads, all below a further band of lotus scroll collaring the neck, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double-circle

A 6 cm triangular section of the rim has been re-stuck and restored. But the rest of the vase appears to be in good condition.
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Yongzheng vases with this design are quite rare and the painting technique is more fluid and less stiff than by comparison Qianlong versions of the same decoration, which are slightly more common.  Compare a very similar Qianlong vase sold in these rooms 17th May 1988, lot 188 and again 26th October 2003, lot 138.  Also see a Qianlong vase of this form but painted with different flower scrolls and with stiff leaves on the neck, sold in our London rooms, 24th July 1973, lot 316.