Property from Various Owners
An underglaze blue and famille verte enameled porcelain garlic-headed vase
18th centuiry
Its bulbous mouth encircled by ruyi lappets, opposing chimes and pearls on a cash-patterned ground while the long neck displays an overlapping feather pattern above leaves ascending from the compressed globular body with fruit and flowering stems against a fish-roe ground in four lappet reserves above repeated cash-patterned diapers, pearls and chimes; the various registers of decoration painted in the characteristic enamels separated by narrow lines drawn in underglaze blue.
15 1/4in (39cm) high
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