A cloisonné enamel bottle vase


18th century, the handles late Qing DynastyThe globular body rising to a tall thin neck and with a garlic head mouth rim, brightly enamelled with an elaborate lotus flower head meander, on a sky blue ground, flanked with later added gilt-bronze Buddhist lion-form handles. 19.5cm (7 5/8in) high
|Provenance: a hand-written note reading "This vase is called "Beautyé(?) Shoulder", Tsing Dynasty, approximately 160 years old. Property of Mr. Bing Hua Li, Care of Roger S. Wills, 5623 Worchester Ave. Chicago"