TRANSITIONAL PERIOD OR LATERThe flared neck painted with birds and butterflies amidst flowering blossoms and bamboo sprays, the central band with ruyi-shaped scrolls, divided by incised anhua lines and borders, all above a band of stylised flames, 19.6cm.Cf. T Canepa and K Bulter, Leaping the Dragon Gate, The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, p.536, no. IV.4a,b, for a similar gu-shaped vase, and with details regarding the dating of these vases.