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A RARE TEADUST-GLAZED FACETED VASE, HU
QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase of hexagonal shape has a pair of rounded tubular handles fanking the neck and is
applied overall with a fnely textured matte glaze of even, dark olive-green color that also covers
the base surrounding the mark which is covered with a brownish glaze, and the foot is covered
with a dark brown wash.
13æ in. (35 cm.) high
$120,000-180,000

PROVENANCE (mark)
Christie’s London, 22 July 2006, lot 141.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
A similar vase was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, Iron in the Fire,
Ashmolean Museum, 1988, no. 89, and on the front cover. Another from the W. W. Winkworth
Collection was sold at Sotheby’s London, 12 December 1972, lot 130. A larger teadust-glazed
vase of this shape is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987,
no. 965. See, also, a very similar example sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, One Man’s Vision:
Important Chinese Art from the Manno Art Museum, 28 October 2002, lot 560.
清乾隆 茶葉末釉六方貫耳瓶 六字篆書刻款

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