An important and very rare Chinese teicai porcelain vase yellow-ground , decorated with gilt enriched floral designs and elephant handles, bearing six character marks to the base , iron-blue six-character sealmark and Qing period And Mark (1796-1820)The vase of compressed pear-shape, elaborately decorated with four large blossoming lotus evenly spaced around the lower body below the waisted neck decorated with iron-red bats suspending a beribboned string of wan emblem, ruyi and lotus, all against a dense background of further floral decoration and interlaced leafy fronds reserved on a rich lemon-yellow ground, the neck surmounted by an out-curved mouth rim with shaped edge decorated with ruyi head, corresponding to the ruyi decoration on the body, all raised on a slender tapering foot decorated with overlapping petals. Measurement : 28 cm Condition Report : intact Country of Origin : Iran

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