A Ming-Style Blue And White Bottle Vase. Qianlong Seal Mark And Period - Sotheby's

with a tapering cylindrical body, lightly molded and painted in imitation of the 'heaped and piled' effect, with ten vertical panels of alternating lotus and camellia scroll between borders of foliate meander, the sloped shoulder with a band of petal lappets and three peony stems on the neck within borders of classic scroll repeated on the spreading foot, seal mark in underglaze blue. Height 12 1/4  in., 31 cm. Estimation: 20,000 - 30,000 USD

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 19 mars 2013 www.sothebys.com