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A RARE FLAMBÉ-GLAZED VASE
YONGZHENG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
(1723-1735)
The angular hu-shaped body is relief-decorated with a row of ruyi motifs on the tapering
lower body and on the shoulder forming a cloud collar between double bow-string borders
below the neck which is fanked by a pair of angular scroll handles. The exterior is covered
with a glaze of rich, mottled, crushed strawberry-red color streaked in milky lavender-
blue that thins to mushroom on the handles, the raised decoration and on the edge of the
cupped mouth rim which is a mottled purplish-blue on top above a crackle-sufused, pale
greyish-blue-toned, clear glaze streaked in dark mauve on the interior. The base is covered
with a mottled yellowish-brown and celadon glaze wash that also covers the reign mark.
13¬ in. (34.6 cm.) high
$50,000-70,000

PROVENANCE
Christie’s London, 7 November 2006, lot 197.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
A very similar Yongzheng-marked vase is illustrated in Ethereal Elegance: Porcelain
Vases of the Imperial Qing - The Huaihaitang Collection, Art Museum, Institute of
Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007, pp. 220-21, no. 67.
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