Chinese Art A blue and white porcelain vase painted with sprays China, Qing dynasty, late 18th century . . Cm 27,00 x 35,00. Jar vase, with short cylindrical neck, the exterior painted with underglaze chrysanthemums between sprays within two brown glazed bands (top and bottom) engraved with vegetal motifs. Chenghua four-character apocryphal mark painted on the base.The decoration with flowers freely arranged in an "airy" way on the surface pays homage to a typical pattern of the Chenghua period (1464-1487), considered to be one of the golden periods of Chinese fictile art.