(Q33990)

Formed in four sections: the largest comprising the tall baluster-form body with its eight baluster-shaped tulip nozzles rising from a floral-patterned blue-ground lappet border, above bands with floral motifs, beribboned Chinese symbols, flowering vine and scrollwork, leaf tips, leaves and ribbons, and overlapping petals, on the lower body with a knotted ankle and bell-shaped domed base decorated with two bands of beribboned Chinese symbols intersected by a wide flowering vine and scrollwork band above a band of leaf tips and demi-ruyi heads around the edge; the second segment, a smaller version of the tall vase below, similarly decorated with two bands of beribboned Chinese symbols intersected by a wide flowering vine and scrollwork band all beneath eight tulip nozzles issuing from a blue-ground floral lappet border, a band of leaf tips and leaves and ribbons border; the third smaller segment, similarly decorated with a band of beribboned Chinese symbols alternated with floral sprigs above a wide flowering vine and scrollwork band above another band of beribboned Chinese symbols, leaf tips and ruyi-heads, (Engels)

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