44. VASE EN PORCELAINE À GLAÇURE BLEUE POUDRÉ À DÉCOR À L'OR, YUHUCHUNPING Marque et époque Guangxu (1875-1908) A GILT-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE VASE, YUHUCHUNPING Guangxu seal mark and of the period The pear-shaped body rising from a straight foot to a waisted neck flaring at the rim, covered overall with a brilliant blue glaze and finely painted in gold around the body with a sinuous five-clawed dragon in pursuit of a flaming pearl and a phoenix with five tail feathers, all amidst blistery clouds, with a band of upright lappets around the base and a band of ruyi heads around the rim, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue. 29.5cm (11 5/8in) high. 清光緒 霽藍釉描金龍鳳紋玉壺春瓶 「大清光緒年製」款 Provenance: Acquired by the secretary to the French ambassador to Shanghai in the 1940s, and thence by descent in the family to the present owner 來源： 法國駐上海大使秘書於1940年代入藏 此后家族傳承，傳至現藏家