RARE IMPERIAL PAINTED ENAMEL YELLOW-GROUND 'LOTUS' VASE QIANLONG MARK AND PERIOD 清 乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯黃地番蓮花葉紋賞瓶 《乾隆年製》雙方框款rising from short foot to a globular body, extending to a waisted neck and terminating to a flared rim, the exterior delicately enamelled with four blossoming lotus flowers surrounded by scrolling foliage, the body and the neck separated by a gilt bronze ring and a band of ruyi motif adorned underneath, all reserved on a richly enamelled yellow ground, the interior covered in turquoise enamel, the base inscribed with a four-character Qianlong mark within double squares in blue over the white enamelled ground(Qty: 1)27cm highProvenance: The Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, Balcarres House, Fife, ScotlandNote: a pair of comparable painted enamel vases, similarly painted with lotus flowers reserved on a yellow ground and inscribed a four-Qianlong character mark on the base, was in the Qing Court collection and is in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, museum numbers: Gu Fa 654 & 655