A Chinese blue and white ewer,
Daoguang (1821-1850), in the Ming style, painted with a fruiting peach branch or a loquat branch, in shaped panels surrounded by sprigs of flowers, the neck with scrolling lotus below a banana leaf border, the curved, handle with sprigs of lingzhi and the spout with trailing foliage, six character Daoguang mark,
26.5cm high to top of handle

Provenance: Property of a Noble European Lady;
collection of a Spanish diplomat, who was based in Shanghai in the, 1940s;
Christie’s, South Kensington, London, 13 May 2016, Lot 764.
清道光 青花缠枝莲纹执壶 《大清道光年制》青花篆书款