A Chinese gilt-decorated blue-ground bottle vase, the globular body rising from a short foot to a tall trumpet neck, glazed cobalt-blue, the body and neck decorated in gilt with roundels bearing floral, fauna and emblem motifs, the collar with a band of scrolling lotus and shou characters, all below a ruyi-head border at the mouth and above lappets at the foot, the base with gilt Guangxu six-character mark, 40cm high 大清光绪年制款祭蓝釉描金赏瓶