A CHINESE LAVENDER-GROUND, UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND COPPER-RED BALUSTER VASE

18TH/19TH CENTURY

The body painted with blossoming prunus and bamboo, the reverse with poetic inscriptions and seal marks, decorated with a pair of openwork handles with bats suspending ruyi-heads, the base with a Qianlong mark, ormolu-mounted, 37cm the vase, 41cm overall.

Provenance: from a private collection, London.

Cf. Christie's London, 19th June 2001, lot 323.