BLUE AND WHITE 'LANÇA-CHARACTER' STEM CUP
QIANLONG MARK BUT LATER
乾隆款 青花纏枝蓮紋及梵文高足碗painted around the steep flaring sides with eight lança characters enclosed within undulating lotus stems issuing stylised blossoms and acanthus leaves, the underside with a frieze of tightly-bound lotus lappets, all raised on a tall spreading stem decorated with bands of half-flowerheads and floral sprays on a raised rib above pendent interlinked tassels issuing from ruyi-heads, the interior with a stylised peony medallion within a double-line border repeated at the rim, the interior of the foot with a six-character Qianlong mark
11cm high