Lot 268. A blue and white Ming-style bottle vase, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795). Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's

the globular body rising from a short foot to a tall waisted neck, molded around the stepped shoulder and the body with fillets, finely painted in rich 'heaped and piled' cobalt-blue tones with a composite flower scroll band, all between lotus-lappet and classic scroll bands at the foot and a ruyi band at the shoulder, the neck with stiff leaf and keyfret bands below a wave border at the rim, the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue - Height 14 5/8  in., 37.2 cm

Provenance: French Private Collection.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 13 sept. 2016, 10:30 AM