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PROPERTY OF A VIRGINIA PRIVATE COLLECTOR Inspired by renown Song dynasty forms and glazes, identical
Yongzheng mark and period vases of this rare form include
A SMALL ‘RU’-TYPE BOTTLE VASE
one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27th May 2009, lot 1892,
YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD which was previously sold six years earlier in our Hong Kong
rooms, 12th June 2003, lot 180; another in our London
the gently compressed globular body encircled at the rooms, 8th June 1993, lot 109; and one in these rooms, 1st
shoulder by a raised ring, surmounted by a tall slender neck June 1988, lot 158. A similar vase but celadon-glazed sold
with ß aring rim, ß anked on each side by zoomorphic handles, at Christie’s Paris, 10th December 2014, lot 283. See also
covered overall in an even, lustrous pale-blue glaze, the base two related vases in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated
with a four-character seal mark in underglaze blue in John Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, pl.
Height 5⅜ in., 13.7 cm
A361 for a Yongzheng vase of similar size but lacking handles
and pl. A341 for a Qianlong vase with handles.
$ 50,000-70,000
㶭晵㬋ġġġầ㰅慱暁俛⮷䒞
˪晵㬋⸜墥˫㫦

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