A massive famille rose enameled porcelain vase, Qianlong Mark. Its long, waisted neck supporting a pair of blue enameled dragon handles and painted with a ruby red ground to the classic lotus flower and leaf scroll pattern picked out in bright enamels that repeat in the yellow ground band at the shoulder and in the continuous landscape encircling the curving walls of the body filled with Chinese officials and exotic foreign envoys carrying tribute gifts toward an entrance gate to the imperial city, the interior of the neck covered in pale green enamel that also surrounds a square reserve on the recessed base bearing the six-character mark in iron red seal script.

H 29.5in. (75cm)