Lot 9. A fine blue and white bottle vase, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795); 37.5 cm, 15 in. Est: £40,000 - £60,000. © Sotheby's.

the globular body rising from a short spreading foot to a tall waisted neck with everted rim, moulded around the body with double filets and a further single filet at the stepped shoulder, finely painted in rich 'heaped and piled' cobalt-blue tones with a broad composite flower scroll band, all between lotus lappets and classic scroll bands at the base and a ruyi band at the shoulder, the neck with stiff leaf and keyfret bands below a wave band at the rim, the base inscribed with the seal mark in underglaze blue. 

Provenance: Collection of Louise Dorotea Lamm (1872-1950), Sweden.