A blue and white 'floral' bottle vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 青花花卉紋蒲槌瓶 《大清乾隆年製》款

The form and decoration of these bottle vases resemble early Ming ewers, as shown in John A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, 1956, pl. 54 (bottom right). Compare a closely related example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Blue-and-White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 4; and another, published in Xu Huping, Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 239. See also a vase from the collection of Sir Quo-Wei Lee (1918-2013), sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 7th October 2019, lot 139.