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A FLAMBÉ-GLAZED MEIPING
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE
PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase is covered to the exterior with an unctuous glaze of a deep crushed-
strawberry tone with turquoise and pale blue streaks thinning to a mushroom
tone at the rim. The base is covered in a mottled café-au-lait glaze.
12º in. (31 cm.) high
£60,000-80,000 $85,000-110,000
€69,000-92,000

PROVENANCE
Formerly in a private English collection.
Only a small number of fambé-glazed vessels in this form are known.
Compare the present lot with two slightly larger fambé-glazed meiping
also Qianlong reign mark and of the period: one in the Shanghai Museum
but formerly in the Zande Lou collection illustrated in Qing Imperial
Monochromes: The Zande Lou Collection, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong, 2005, no. 49; one included in the exhibition Ethereal Elegance.
Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing. The Huaihaitang Collection, Art Museum,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2007, cat. no. 69; and one
illustrated in The Prime Cultural Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace
Museum, the Chinaware, vol. 2, 2007, pl. 8

A slightly taller Qianlong-marked fambé-glazed meiping (34.9 cm. high) with
a reddish-hued glaze and slender profle was sold at Christie’s New York, 17
September 2008, lot 496.

清乾隆 窯變釉梅瓶 六字篆書刻款
來源: 英國私人舊藏

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