BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' BOTTLE VASE GUANGXU MARK AND OF THE PERIOD the globular body painted in Ming style with a wide band of lotus flowers borne on scrolling leafy stems above a border of lappets around the foot, below moulded rings at the shoulder enclosing narrow bands of ruyi-heads and foliate scrolls, the waisted neck with slender plantain leaves and a border of ruyi-heads beneath the rim, the base with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue, neck reduced 36cm high