Lot Essay
Although many Qianlong vases of this form with lotus scroll decoration are recorded, vases with additional dragons are extremely rare, and no other example appears to have been published. Examples decorated with lotus meander include: one in the exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 68; another illustrated by Geng Baochang, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Qingdai Bufen, p. 107, fig. 142; and one in the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Hu, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 62.