A VERY RARE SMALL GILT-DECORATED MOTTLED TURQUOISE-GROUND VASEQIANLONG GILT SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)The faceted vase is relief-decorated with various gilt patterns and motifs, including pairs of bats flanking beribboned wan emblems on the neck flanked by scroll handles, and decorated with quatrefoil panels of simulated ‘dreamstone’ marble on each side of the body, all reserved on a mottled turquoise and blue-glazed ground accented with black specks.5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high