M4472

Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white vase of zun form, painted in the Ming style with heaped and piled effect, the body with two wide bands, the lower register with six different large flowerheads and twelve smaller flowerheads, all on continuous scrolling branches with their characteristic leaves, including peony, lily, rose, poppy, pink, camellia and mallow, beneath a band with six large lotus flowerheads on a continuous scrolling leafy branch with smaller flowerheads, all between six relief ribs above a wide band of swirling crested waves and a further rib above lappets on the splayed foot, all between two high relief taotie animal mask and ring handles, the neck with formal archaic style leaves, beneath a further crested wave band at the rim.

The base with a six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.

9 ⅞ inches, 25.2 cm high.

五彩花鸟纹碟

直径：16.2厘米

天启：1620-1627

青花貓蝶圖長頸瓶

高14 ¼ 英寸，36.2 厘米。

過渡期，崇禎，約1630-1640年。