Asian Works of Art

the baluster vase with lobed lines, the main panel painted with entwined lotus scrolls, between a band of lappet leaves and a band of lotus sprays, the neck with overlapping plantain leaves below a ruyi border painted to the quatrefoil-form mouth, the splayed foot also in quatrefoil form with wave motif, all against a bright yellow ground, the base covered in a turquoise glaze with a six-character Qianlong mark in underglaze blue.