vase en porcelaine émaillée blanc à décor moulé Chine, dynastie Qing, époque Qianlong (1736-1795)

de forme balustre, la panse ovoïde sous un long col aux bords largement évasés, à décor très finement moulé de lotus dans des rinceaux feuillagés, le col habillé de palmes

Collection of Richard H. Halstead, New York.
American Art Galleries, 14th March 1903.
Collection of the Honourable Hugh J. Grant, New York.

The vase is in good overall condition with a minute chip restored to the rim. The actual color of the white glaze is a fraction more bluish, less bright, than the catalogue illustration suggests.
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Two similarly decorated bottle vases formerly in the collection of Paul and Helen Bernat, are illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. two, pp. 166-167, no. 802-803.