The blue and white jar is of bulbous form, body depicts flowers and vines between lappet, ruyi cloud, and vine bands, the sides mounted with two elephant mask handles, each biting onto a looped ring, bottom bears six character QIANLONG reign mark.|Qing Dynasty period.||Height: 18 in (45.7 cm) Width: 13 in (33.0 cm)|清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮紋鳩耳尊|頸略束，口微侈，垂腹圓弧，肩飾雙銜環鳩耳，圈足外撇。扁圓腹下垂，橢圓形圈足外撇。口沿繪卷草紋，頸部飾纏枝蓮紋和如意雲頭紋。腹部以纏枝花卉為主題紋飾，足牆飾蓮瓣。變形鳩耳含有“長壽”之意，《後漢書》雲：“ 八十九十禮有加賜，玉杖長九尺，端以鳩鳥為飾。鳩者，不噎之鳥也。欲老人不噎。”|此尊體型碩大，胎體厚重，造型古樸，仿自春秋時期青銅壺式樣。胎質細膩潤滑，略微泛青，釉面光潔平滑，青花濃重鮮豔，蓮花飽滿生動，紋飾疏密有致，層次分明。整體效果高貴典雅、美不勝收，為乾隆青花的上品。青花底書“大清乾隆年製”篆書款識。