A large lime-green ground 'famille-rose' vase Qing dynasty, Guangxu period the ovoid body surmounted by a tall slender neck, enamelled with the bajixiang (Eight Buddhist Emblems) amongst large lotus blooms, fruiting peach sprigs and scrolling foliage below a frieze of four bats and gilt shou characters, the base encircled with bands of pink-ground lappets and the shoulders with a turquoise-ground border of ruyi -heads and upright stiff leaves, the neck similarly decorated below a blue angular scroll border and gilt edged rim, the base with an apocryphal six-character seal mark of Longqing in blue enamel 90 cm high. Provenance: The vase was brought to Australia from Scotland during the 1970s.