A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE GARLIC-HEAD VASE, SUANTOUPING

Daoguang mark but later

青花蒜頭瓶

《大清道光年製》款

The pear-shaped vase supported by a splayed foot and rising to a bulbous head, the exterior painted with various blossoms and fruiting peaches above bands of petals and cresting waves, the neck with a band of key fret below lappets enclosing swirling cloud motifs, the head with blossoms issuing from undulating leafy stems, the base with an apocryphal six-character Daoguang mark in underglaze-blue,

27.3cm high