PROVENANCE: From the estate of Harold & Mousser, of York, Pennsylvania, an entrepeneurs, private collections, acquired pre-1970's from Fluhrer's Galleries, York, PA. Dimensions: Height: 12-7/8" Diameter: 8-1/8" Chinese Qing Dynasty Xuantong Emperor Reign period reward vase. A Sizeable rotund body with rounded shoulders converging into a tall straight neck, smooth narrowed mouth, with a slightly concaved foot base by a smooth craftsman. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against the Wucai color. Wucai or five-color shades and tones, brightly painted in Wucai design, Opaque colors around the exterior, between the filling motif decorated in colorful vivid sgraffito ground of uptala. Set between the filling motif decorated in colorful vivid sgraffito ground of uptala, lotus bloom motif in a ruby-red color, bird relaxing on the branch, fresh green foliage, and dark grey black sturdy bough, covered all the vase. The exterior base decorated vibrantly in over white-cream glazed in the brilliant colors are a feast for the eye. Mark on under-base, a vertical six underglaze red script characters reign mark, Xuantong Emperor Reign Period of Great Qing Dynasty. See More