A Chinese blue and white vase , of archaistic zun form, well-painted in brilliant cobalt-blue tones with simulated 'heaping and piling', the baluster body encircled by two bands, the upper with continuous lotus scroll, the lower with a composite floral meander, all between slightly raised double-line borders, the shoulder set with animal mask and mock-ring handles, below the waisted flared neck decorated with stiff ruyi -bordered upright plantain leaves and a narrow wave band around the rim, the lower register with a further wave band above a band of pendant petal panels encircling the high flared foot, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with apocryphal six-character Qianlong reign mark, 25cm high minor firing blemishes, but no cracks chips or repair