A pink-enamelled blue and white 'chilong and lingzhi' vase
Brightly enamelled to each side with three pink enamelled chilong writhing amongst lingzhi sprays picked out in enamel and underglaze-blue, the shoulder flanked with stylised horse-head loop handles, the base with an effaced mark reading Daoguang gengxu nianzhi, corresponding to 1850. 23cm (9in) high