IMPORTANT VASE EN PORCELAINE DE LA FAMILLE ROSEMarque et époque Jiaqing (1796-1820)A FAMILLE ROSE LIME-GREEN GROUND VASEJiaqing seal mark and of the periodOf quatre-lobed shape, the tapered body rising to rounded shoulders surmounted by a waisted neck and flared rim, brightly enamelled around the body with four stylised lotus blooms each suspending auspicious emblems, issuing leafy meandering tendrils and growing fruits of thesanduo including buddha's finger citron, the shoulders decorated with four giltji characters alternating with pink bats, with a band of pendantruyi-heads in pink and yellow enamels around the shoulders and rim, and a band of upright lappets around the base, the neck similarly decorated with four lotus flowers issuing leafy tendrils, all reserved on a soft lime-green ground, the interior and base enamelled turquoise, later wood cover with jade finial.23cm（9in) high. (2).Provenance: 清嘉庆 绿地粉彩纏枝蓮紋海棠式瓶礬紅「大清嘉慶年製」篆書款Porcelains with famille rose designs on a vibrant lime-green ground were mostly made during the Jiaqing period of the Qing dynasty as surviving examples demonstrate.pare, for example, a similar lime-green groundmeiping of Jiaqing date, bearing an iron-red seal mark, similarly decorated with lotus flowers amidst giltShou andFu characters, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated inFalangcai Fencai: Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quanji (Porcelains with overglaze enamel and famille rose decoration: Theplete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum), Hong Kong, 1999, p.195, no.172; and a Jiaqing-marked lantern vase decorated with exotic flowers,op.cit., pl.173. See another vase with a Jiajing iron-red seal mark, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 and 29 November 1979, lot 253. Similar designs are also seen on earlier Qianlong period prototypes, such as a Qianlong-marked vase detailed with lotus borne on tendrils between phoenix on a lime-green ground, included in the Nanjing Museum and Chinese University of Hong Kong joint exhibitionQing Imperial Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1995, .