Qianlong red enamel four-character mark and of the period The globular vessel raised on three bulbous feet, colourfully enamelled with a meandering foliate lotus scroll reserved on a pale blue ground rising to the rounded shoulder decorated with lotus-petal panels and cylindrical neck with bats alternating with lotus blossoms, below the wide rim with a composite floral scroll, flanked by a pair of similarly-enamelled S-shaped handles set with openwork gilt-copper cash-motif tubes, the elaborate domed cover decorated with a meandering foliate lotus scroll in openwork between a geometric border around the rim and ruyi-head, floral and rope-twist bands below the reticulated gilt-copper globular finial decorated with a coiled five-clawed dragon pursuing the flaming pearl amidst cloud-scrolls, wood stand. 39.1cm (15 3/8in). (3).