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ANOTHER PROPERTY
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A RARE LANGYAO VASE, MEIPING
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN
UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
(1736-1795)
The high-shouldered vase is covered overall with a
mottled glaze of rich, crushed-strawberry tone.
9¿ in. (23.2 cm.) high, cloth box

$100,000-150,000
PROVENANCE:
Edgar Worch (1880-1972) Collection.
J.J. Lally & Co., New York.
Private collection, United States.

The rich texture and depth of color of the glaze
on the present vase recalls the famed langyao
glaze of the Kangxi period, and is quite different
from the even-textured, liver-red glaze most often
seen on wares of the Yongzheng and Qianlong
periods.

For other meiping of similar proportions and size,
but with more typically seen liver-red glaze, see
the Yongzheng-marked example in the Shenyang
Imperial Palace Museum and illustrated in The
Prime Cultural Relics Collected by the Shenyang
Imperial Palace Museum – The Chinaware Volume
The Second Part, Shenyang, 2008, pp. 12-13,
no. 8. A Qianlong-marked meiping from the
Ohlmer Collection was included in the exhibition
Chinesisches Porzellan, Roemer Museum,
Hildesheim, 1981, no. 99.

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