A Chinese blue and white Ming-style vase

A Chinese blue and white Ming-style vase, painted with a frieze of archaic foliage between upright and pendant stiff leaves, the neck applied with a pair of cylindrical handles joined by a key fret band, Qianlong six character seal mark, perhaps of the period, 19.5cm. Cf. A similar vase in the National Palace Museum is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, pl. 7.