An ivory-white-glazed baluster vase. Impressed Qianlong seal mark and of the period. Photo Bonhams

Very finely potted, the body with a crisply-incised key-fret band at the angular shoulder echoing a further key-fret band and lotus petals above the foot, the elegantly-tapering neck all densely covered with foliate scrolls, the base with the impressed seal mark, and all covered in a crackled transparent glaze. 16.5cm (6½in) high; Estimate: £6,000 - 10,000, CNY 59,000 - 99,000, HK$ 72,000 - 120,000

Provenance: Professor E.T.Hall, no.152
Christie's London, 7 June 2004, lot 39
The Inder Rieden Collection

Compare a related larger example, with slightly different form and decorative patterns, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, Colours of Perfection: Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 31 October 2000, lot 802.

Bonhams. Fine Chinese Art, 10 Nov 2011, New Bond Street www.bonhams.com