all between yellow lappets around the foot and pendent ruyi-heads above the shoulder, a band of upright leaves on the neck, the iron red mark to the base reserved against a turquoise enamelled ground.

Compare also with two related yellow glass vases but decorated with prunus on cracked-ice, of similar shape, Qianlong and Yongzheng marks, illustrated in A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three ...

The blue-glazed, silver and gilt vase was created for the court of the Qianlong Emperor An "extremely rare" 18th Century Chinese vase bought in the 1980s for a few hundred pounds and kept in a ...