A Chinese bottle shaped vase

The vase is meticulously decorated with underglaze blue highlighted with stipples in imitation of the ‘heaping and piling’ effect. The slightly tapering cylindrical body is decorated with vertical panels enclosing leafy flower sprays, all between two bands of flower scrolls. The shoulder is decorated with a lappet band below a band of scrolls, and the neck is decorated with further leafy flowers below a band of leafy scrolls to the rim which is repeated on the foot.

Provenance: Acquired in 2014 in gallery Alte und Neue Kunst, Baden-Baden, Germany, who had the vase in commission for the Diederichs family. According to information the vase was in the ownership of the Diederichs family to 2014. It was acquired in China by admiral Ernst Otto von Diederichs 1843-1918, while he in 1897 to 1899 was the supreme commander of the Imperial German East Asiatic eet. Admiral von Diederichs returned to Germany and retired from the navy in 1902. He lived in Baden-Baden to his death.