A Chinese Famille Verte Vase

Of squat form with a tall slightly flaring neck and moulded bands continuing up along the neck dividing it into several sections, the bulbous body with a central broad band in between thin moulded borders and painted with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, Bajixiang, below a further band of auspicious symbols and above large flower-heads on a ground of scroll-work, the sections of the neck painted with butterflies and flowers, and at the top with stylised pendant ruyi-heads, lotus and scroll-work, the base with an apocryphal square seal mark of Qianlong. Period: 19th century. Height: 26 cm.

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Provenance: Formerly Karl Wilhelm Gerdhem (1868-1932), thence by descent.
A Swedish Private Collection.