Large Chinese Blue and White Lotus Scroll Hu Form Vase. Well painted around the pear-shaped body with large stylized lotus blooms borne on a leafy meandering stem, above a classic scroll encircling the footring and a band of petal lappets enclosing floral sprigs around the base, the shoulders set with two squared archaistic pierced handles, beneath a border of interlinked ruyi-heads, the neck encircled by a frieze of shou medallions on a ground of key-fret pattern, the base with Qianlong six-character seal mark. {Height: 18 inches (45.7 cm)}. Property from a San Francisco Collection.