A Chinese Gilt-Decorated Blue-Glazed Vase, Tianqiuping Of bottle form with flaring neck glazed over the entire body, base and interior with an attractive cobalt blue which is further painted with detailed and well-executed gilt roundels on the body and neck between stylized gilt leaf-lappets at the foot and ruyi-lappets below the rim and divided by wide molded band at the shoulder with gilt Shou-characters amidst scrolling lotus, the roundels variously depicting grasses, and stylized flower groupings on the neck and body, the dark-cobalt- underglaze-blue mark written vertically on the blue-glazed base. Period: Guangxu six-character mark and of the period (1875‑1908). Height: 39 cm.