Asian Arts

Of elegant pear-shaped form, rising to a wide trumpet mouth, with plantain and bamboo growing beside pierced rockwork on grassy mounds enclosed by fencing in the background, bordered below by a band of upright lotus lappet and nine lotus blossoms at the splayed foot, a pendent spear-head border at the shoulder, below a row of upright elongated plantain leaves and a stylised floral scroll to the waisted neck, six-character Qianlong seal mark to the underside.