Lot 123. A fine white-glazed carved bottle vase, 18th century; 29.7cm (11 3/4in) high. Estimate £ 10,000 - 12,000 (€ 11,000 - 14,000). Sold for £ 21,250 (€ 24,410). © Bonhams. 

The compressed globular body finely carved around the exterior with a frieze of lotus, peony and camellia flowers, bordered by a band of stiff petal lappets around the base and ruyi heads on the shoulders, the tall neck with upright plantain leaves rising from a key-fret border, the everted rim encircled by a ruyi-head band, wood stand and box.

Provenance: E.T.Chow Collection (1910-1980)
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 59
A European private collection.

Note: Edward T. Chow resided in the French Concession of Shanghai and lived briefly in New York, before moving to Hong Kong in 1949 and then Switzerland in 1967. He was amongst the most respected dealers of his generation and known for his three fundamental tenets in building his collection: rarity, quality and decoration.

Compare with a carved white-glazed bottle vase similarly carved with floral scrolls to the globular body below upright stiff leaves to the waisted neck, illustrated by R.L.Hobson in The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain, vol.5, London, 1927, pl.LXI, no.E344.