A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'LOTUS' VASE

SIX CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1736-95

The pear-shaped body finely painted with alternating blue and pink lotus flowers amidst stylised leaves, with bats and gilt fylfots against a lemon-yellow ground to the shoulder beneath a narrow pink band of swirling designs, the neck with further sprays of lotus, with a broad band of pink spearheads enclosing beribboned precious objects and dainty blossoms encircling the gilt rim, the interior and base glazed turquoise, all raised on a short straight foot painted with a band of key fret, 17cm.