CHINA - Imperial Chinese porcelain bottle vase (official ware), decorated in blue & white, the globular body painted in the central horizontal register with six different flower heads on scrolled leafy branches including a lotus, a peony, a chrysanthemum and a camellia above a frieze of lotus petals and scrolls at the foot, on a double line. The shoulder features a frieze of ruyi between two lower swells and an upper swell, followed by a horizontal frieze of flowers identical to that on the body, linked by a twisted branch of foliage above a swell. The long, flared neck is decorated with a band of grecques (keyfret), plantain leaves, ruyi heads and waves. Guangxu mark and period, inscribed below the base Da Qing Guangxu nianzhi. Late Qing H. 38.8 cm Provenance: Geneva Geneva Collection Reference: A similar example appears in the inventory of the Beijing Gugong and is illustrated in "The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty", Shanghai, 2003, p. 233 as well as in Liu Liang-yu "Marchandises officielles et populaires Ch'ing" 1991 n° 5 p. 255 Another example is on display at the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, and published in "Zhongguo taoci quanji", vol. 15, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 2 ; Four similar vases are illustrated in Regina Krahl, "Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum", vol. III, London, 1986, pl. 2564, one with an elaborate 19th-century Ottoman gilt-metal lid. One vase is illustrated in the S. Marchant&Son exhibition catalogue "Recent acquisitions 2003" p. 28.29 Another vase bearing the Guangxu mark was sold at SHK on 13 Nov 1990 as lot 253, another of the same mark currently in the National Palace Museum is illustrated by van Oort in "Chinese Porcelain of the 19th & 20th Century", Tijdstroom, 1977, pl. 47 Note: A similar example appears in the inventory of the Beijing Gugong and is illustrated in "The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty", Shanghai, 2003, p. 233 as well as in Liu Liang-yu "Marchandises officielles et populaires Ch'ing" 1991 n° 5 p. 255 Another example is on display at the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, and published in "Zhongguo taoci quanji", vol. 15, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 2 ; Four similar vases are illustrated in Regina Krahl, "Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum", vol. III, London, 1986, pl. 2564, one with an elaborate 19th-century Ottoman gilt-metal lid. One vase is illustrated in the S. Marchant&Son exhibition catalogue "Recent acquisitions 2003" p. 28.29 Another vase bearing the Guangxu mark was sold at SHK on 13 Nov 1990 as lot 253, another of the same mark currently in the National Palace Museum is illustrated by van Oort in "Chinese Porcelain of the 19th & 20th Century", Tijdstroom, 1977, pl. 47.