A blue and white bottle shaped vase 19th century, the globular body rising to a long neck, the body decorated with floral patterns on blue ground in peach-shaped panels, the shoulder decorated with band of ruyi-heads, adjacent to a band of hui pattern, the neck painted with angular leafy patterns with associated flowerhead, with double-ring mark,. Provenance: The collection of John and Maggie Russell, Presbyterian missionaries who built hospitals in China during, the second half 19th century, and thence by descent