YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

Compare the relief decoration on the current vase to a famille rose vase, also dating to the Yongzheng period, illustrated by Bahr, Old Chinese Porcelain & Works of Art in China, pl. LXXXIII. Also see a massive vase of Yongzheng mark and period illustrated by Peter Y.K. Lam in Ethereal Elegance: Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing, The Huaihaitang Collection, no. 120, pp. 340-341. Another example of similar form to the present vase but with gilt decoration and dating to the Kangxi period is in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Porcelain in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Vol. 38, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 143, p. 156.