A Ming-style blue and white cylindrical jar. Qianlong period (1736-1795). Photo Christie's Image Ltd, 2011

Painted in the Ming-style with simulated 'heaping and piling', the main register on the mid-body decorated with five lotus blooms, each flower encircled by its stem and set within a star-pattern formed by ten rhomboid petals, all against a complex geometric-pattern ground and bordered by breaking waves, between bands of scrolling lotus, the waisted neck with further crested waves, supported on a low foot ring designed with half-flowerheads; 9 in. (22.8 cm.) high  Estimate £20,000 - £30,000 .  Price Realized £25,000

清乾隆   青花錦紋罐

Notes: A similar example with a cover sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 31 May 2010, lot 2004

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 8 November 2011; London, King Street www.christies.com