AN IVORY BOTTLE-VASE, the narrow flaring neck carved with bands of overlapping plantain leaves and pendent arabesques beneath a key-fret rim, with stylised taotie heads suspending loose rings, the ovoid body deeply incised with a continuous scene of the eighteen lohans, each identified by his attribute, posed against a background of dense cloud-scrolls, all above a spreading foot with bands of floral and geometric motifs, late Qing Dynasty