Guangxu six-character mark and probably of the period.
Decorated with scrolling vines, geometric scrolls, and a honeycomb diaper across the body, flanked by two lion head handles, raised on three lobed foliate feet, with a rich yellow glaze, underside marked.
H: 9 3/4 in.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in China by the grandparents of the present owner in the 1950's. Thence by descent.
NOTE: For another example of this form, Tongzhi mark and period, see Christie's, New York, November 20, 1990, lot 226, where an identical example with a Guangxu mark is noted as being included in the exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, catalogue no. 143.