A FINE BLUE AND WHITE 'FLORAL' HU VASE QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD

of archaistic form, well-painted in brilliant tones of underglaze blue with simulated 'heaping and piling', the ovoid body encircled by two bands, the upper with continuous lotus scroll, the lower with a composite floral meander, all between slightly raised double-line borders, the shoulder set with animal mask and mock-ring handles, below the waisted flared neck decorated with ruyi-bordered stiff upright plantain leaves and a narrow wave band around the rim, the bottom register with a further wave band above a band of pendent petal panels encircling the high flared foot, the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue
Height 9 3/4 in., 25 cm

Provenance:
Collection of John Milton Bonham (1835-1897).