A fine and rare blue and white 'kui dragon' vase,

Seal mark and period of Qianlong

清乾隆　青花穿蓮夔龍紋長頸瓶

《大清乾隆年製》款

well potted with a compressed globular body rising from a splayed foot to a tall elegant waisted neck, exquisitely painted with two pairs of confronted archaistic kui dragons with their sinuous bodies writhing amongst dense interlocking lotus scrolls, detailed with a bat hovering above and suspending three plump peaches, all between upright lappets and a classic scroll encircling the foot and a ruyi band at the shoulder, the neck similarly decorated with four pairs of dragons between a keyfret band and a ruyi🐈 border, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark

28.3 cm