A blue and white ‘floral’ bottle vase Qianlong seal mark and period

the globular body rising from a spreading foot to a tall waisted neck, brightly painted to simulate the 'heaping and piling' effect, the body with meandering composite floral scrolls above lappet and foliate scroll bands, the shoulder encircled by a narrow composite floral scroll above pendent ruyi heads, all below upright stiff leaves and a keyfret band around the neck, the rim with a band of breaking waves above a ruyi band, inscribed to the base with a six-character seal mark

Sotheby's London, 5th December 1995, lot 431.

Approximately two thirds around the neck over-sprayed to conceal to rim cracks (70mm and 45mm) and one associated rim chip, measuring approximately 20mm. Otherwise in very good general condition.
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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; one in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, is published in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol. 15, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 2; and 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. See also two vases of this type sold in these rooms, one from the Toguri collection, sold, 9^th June 2004, lot 5, and the other, 10^th November 2010, lot 102A.