A large lime-green ground 'famille-rose' vase Qing dynasty, Guangxu period

the ovoid body surmounted by a tall slender neck, enamelled with the bajixiang (Eight Buddhist Emblems) amongst large lotus blooms, fruiting peach sprigs and scrolling foliage below a frieze of four bats and gilt shou characters, the base encircled with bands of pink-ground lappets and the shoulders with a turquoise-ground border of ruyi-heads and upright stiff leaves, the neck similarly decorated below a blue angular scroll border and gilt edged rim, the base with an apocryphal six-character seal mark of Longqing in blue enamel
90 cm high

• Lot Sold $30,000 (Hammer Price)
• $36,600 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

The vase was brought to Australia from Scotland during the 1970s.