H. 38,4 cm Condition A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE, China, Guangxu six-character mark and period. The vase is painted in fifteenth century style with a broad band of composite foliate scroll above a petal-lappet band on the globular body, and bands of pendent ruyi heads and further foliate scroll on the shoulder, all separated by plain rib borders below a band of upright leaves rising from a key-fret border towards a further ruyi band and wave border on the neck-Former property from a Dutch private collection-Few short firing cracks to feet, mouth rim very slightly chipped