The heavily potted vase has a rounded upper body covered with a bright glaze and well carved with peony roundels on the trellis ground, the tall trumpet-shaped neck is carved with a trellis-diaper ground, above a band of stylised lotus petals. The mouth rim reduced, from the mouth rim a long Y-shaped vertical long crack, glaze crackles, slightly lining, minor firing imperfections. 55,5 cm high., 22,5 cm wide Provenance: from the private collection of an Italian noble Lady, bought at Perotto Antichità ; Milan, (label), already Sotheby's London 10 December 1991 lot 161