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finely potted after Ming dynasty prototypes, the circular body surmounted by a slender tubular neck flanked by a pair of scroll handles, superbly painted in washes of cobalt blue accentuated with simulated 'heaping and piling', the globular body decorated with an upper register of three leafy flowering sprays alternating with the lower register of three leafy fruiting sprays, including peony blooms and clusters of loquat and lychee, the neck detailed with floral blooms wreathed by leafy stems, between bands of 'classic' scrollwork and stylised trefoil lappets encircling the rim and shoulder, the handles picked out with scrolling motifs, all above a frieze of upright petal lappets skirting the foot, the countersunk base inscribed with a six-character seal mark