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AN UNUSUAL PALE BLUE-GLAZED
CARVED PEAR-SHAPED VASE
18TH CENTURY
The bulbous body and waisted neck are well
carved in low relief with bands of highly stylized
archaistic decoration, all between a band of key
fret below the mouth rim and a band of triangular
overlapping blade tips encircling the splayed foot.
The vase is covered inside and out with a glaze of
pale sky-blue color that thins on the decoration.
14º in. (36.2 cm.) high
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 22 March 2007, lot 387.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
Compare the Qianlong-marked vase of similar
shape and with similar decoration, but of larger
size and covered with a celadon glaze, included
in the exhibition Qing Imperial Monochromes: The
Zande Lou Collection, Shanghai Museum, Beijing
Museum, and the Art Museum, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 2005, pp. 122-23, no.
44.
清十八世紀 天青釉刻仿古紋荸薺瓶

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