Lot description
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735) Delicately potted and of unusually small size, the tapering body exquisitely painted in cobalt of rich blue tone with simulated 'heaping and piling' with eight detached fruiting branches and vines, including peach, melon, persimmon, cherry, grape, pomegranate, lychee and longan, above a band of interlocking upright lappets formed by ruyi and trefoil scrolls, the broad shoulders with a further collar of lappets with foliate and ruyi-head terminals, the narrow waisted neck encircled by cresting waves 10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) high, stand, box
