the bulbous body finely painted with eighteen arhats within two dragon-band cartouches, all against a red tendril ground, the neck decorated with a band of floral heads in tendrils against a yellow ground, all below a band of ruyi head around the mouth rim, the base inscribed with a four-character Qianlong mark in double squares in overglaze blue, with a wooden stand (23.5cm high) Footnote: Note: two closely comparable vases similarly painted with eighteen arhats decoration and dated to the tenth year of Qianlong reign (1745AD) were previously in the Qing Court collection and now in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, æ•…ç“·17952 and 17953.