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A RARE ‘RU’-TYPE LOTUS POD-MOUTH VASE The Japanese wood box cover has an inscription to the interior
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD stating the vase was formally collected by Abe from the Edo
period (1603-1868), signed by Ōba Iwao (1899-1975) and dated
Þ nely potted with the globular body rising from a short 1968.
foot to a tall cylindrical neck surmounted by a lotus Vases of this type are particularly rare. Compare a Qianlong
pod-shaped mouth sealed on top save for seven pierced mark and period ß ambé-glazed vase of very similar shape sold
holes, covered overall with a smooth grayish-celadon at Christie’s New York, 15th September 2011, lot 1600. See a
glaze accentuated with occasional pale golden crackles, related Yongzheng clair-de-lune vase of a di! erent shape but
the foot ring dressed in brown imitating Song stoneware, also with a lotus pod-head pierced with seven apertures, from
the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze
the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese
blue, Japanese wood box (3) Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, pl. 845; and also
Height 9¼ in., 23.4 cm
a Jiaqing celadon-glazed example with carved designs, sold in
our Hong Kong rooms, 17th November 1975, lot 153; and another,
$ 30,000-50,000
or possibly the same one, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th April
2001, lot 554.
㶭Ḧ昮ġầ㰅慱咖咔⎋䒞
˪⣏㶭Ḧ昮⸜墥˫㫦

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