Guangxu period, the globular body and tall, waisted neck, finely painted in rich 'heaped and piled' cobalt-blue tones with a composite floral scroll band, all between lotus-lappet and classic scroll borders at the foot and a ruyi band and floral scroll divided by molded fillets at the shoulder, the neck with keyfret and still leaves below a collar of waves at the rim, the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue. Height 16 in.