A Chinese powder blue ground slip decorated bottle vase, Qing Dynasty, 19^thcentury, the body decorated with three scaly fish in white slip, a crab and a shell, underglaze blue, concentric double circle mark, 20.5cm high

Provenance: acquired in china in the 1920s and thence by descent

Condition Report
hairline to top, some enamel loss to slip decoration

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