A BLUE AND WHITE 'FLORAL' BOTTLE VASE SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG |

painted with composite floral scrolls above a border of lappets, the shoulder decorated with pendent ruyi heads and a narrow floral scroll, the neck with plantain leaves below a border of waves around the rim

Sotheby's London, 5th December 1995, lot 431.
Sotheby's London, 6th November 2013, lot 15.

The mouth has a triangular restuck chip (approx. 6 by 7 cm), which was repaired with rivets at one point. There are typical light surface scratches.
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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 our London rooms, one from the Toguri collection, sold, 9th June 2004, lot 5, and the other, 10th November 2010, lot 102A.