A blue and white handled vase, hu, Mark and period of Yongzheng 清雍正 青花纏枝花卉紋鳩耳壺 《大清雍正年製》款 of bronze hu shape, flanked by a pair of stylised turtledove-shaped handles, each surmounted by a spiralled knop and suspending a mock ring, brilliantly painted in a simulated early Ming 'heaping and piling' style with a broad composite scroll bearing blooms including lotus, chrysanthemum and hibiscus, between bands of petal lappets and ruyi, the neck collared with a continuous foliate scroll of stylised lotus between a slightly raised fillet joining the handles and a border of waves at the rim, the foot decorated by a classic foliate scroll, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark h. 33.5 cm