A Chinese blue and white vase: of baluster form with waisted slender neck and ruyi handles, painted with scrolling peony, lingzhi sprays and foliage between ruyi-head and lappet borders at the rim and foot, six-character Qianlong seal mark, bears a fragment of a collector's paper label, 27 cm high [tiny flat chip to one ruyi handle terminal].* Provenance. An English private collection by descent through the Blackett/Adnams family. The vase was acquired by Annie Madeline Glover b.1885 [daughter of Annie Adnams b.1857] who arrived in Shanghai to teach in September 1910. She married accountant James Arthur Burke-Scott there in 1912, had a son in 1913 and was widowed in 1918. Subsequently she and her son Pat moved back to this country in 1922 on the P&O steamship 'Egypt', eventually settling in Bloomfield Park, Bath from where the vase was passed on to the present owner.