A FINE BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE, the pear-shaped body surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck, painted in Ming style with a continuous two-tiered lotus menader between lotus petals around the base above classic scroll around the foot and a ruyi collar, the neck with foliate motifs below a wave border around the rim, the blue with simulated 'heaping and piling', Qianlong seal mark and of the period