Blue-and-white vase with lotus scrolls. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration. Height: 455 millimetres; Diameter: 190 millimetres; Diameter: 160 millimetres (base). Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮. Ming dynasty, Zhengde mark and period, AD 1506–21. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. © Trustees of the British Museum

Large porcelain vase of ancient bronze form with two handles with rings at the neck. Underglaze blue with wide band of scrolling lotus flowers above band of lotus petals. Stylised leaves and heart-shaped panels on shoulder, ruyi motifs on the foot, and square panel with inscription between the handles.

Purchased by Sir Percival David from Bluett & Sons on 27th April 1933. Listed in Bluett & Sons Sales Day Book (SDB) vol. 14, p.206, Lot 169. £88. Purchased at Sotheby's, 25th-26th April 1933 from the Stephen D. Winkworth Collection Sale.

Bibliographic reference; - Medley, Margaret, Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1976
- Pierson, Stacey, Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2004

Potters based the form of this large blue-and-white vase on a bronze altar vase. The handles on either side have porcelain rings attached. The body is decorated with a traditional lotus scroll design. It is marked with a six-character Zhengde reign mark.