The body tapers towards the quatrefoil mouth rim and is moulded on each wider side with a peach-shaped panel, and flanked by a pair of lug handles on the neck. The vase is covered with a streaked glaze of milky blue and reddish-purple colour. The interior of the foot is covered with a pale brown wash, wood stand, Japanese wood box. 

Provenance: A Japanese private collection, acquired in the first half of 20th century

Note: A flambé-glazed vase of this form with a Qianong seal mark is illustrated by J.J. Marquet de Vasselot and M.J. Ballot, The Louvre Museum: Chinese Ceramics, vol. II, 1922, pl. 35. Compare to another Qianlong-marked flambé-glazed fanghu-form vase of similar height sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 2004, lot 1058, and another at Christie's New York, 17 September 2008, lot 521.