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PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND PRIVATE COLLECTION
                       1841
                       A RARE CELADON-GLAZED FACETED VASE
                       QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE
                       BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
                       The slender vase is of facetted hexagonal form and flanked
                       on the neck with a pair of stylized reticulated handles,
                       covered with a pale bluish-green glaze, stopping short of the
                       brown-dressed foot rim.
                       14º in. (36 cm.) high

                       $50,000-70,000
                       PROVENANCE:
                       Acquired in the United States in the 1990s.
                       Celadon-glazed Qianlong-marked vases of this shape
                       are very rare. A Qianlong-marked vase of similar shape
                       and with similar dragon-form handles, but decorated in
                       underglaze blue and yellow enamel, is illustrated in The Tsui
                       Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1991, no. 122.

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