A CHINESE GLAZED SLIP-DECORATED JAR. Late 19th / early 20th Century. With rounded shoulders decorated with a continuous panel of flowers on a pond above a band of freely painted fish, the shoulders with a band enclosing three panels depicting a bird on flowering plum tree branches, and two depicting lotus flowers, the neck painted with a six character Xuande mark, 18cm H. Provenance: British Diplomatic Collection, acquired in Beijing prior to 1953. 十九世紀晚期 / 二十世紀早期 蓮紋罐，「大宋宣和年製」楷書款 來源：英國外交官藏，於1953年前購於北京。