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A RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED LOBED VASE
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
of trefoil section, the tall slender form with neck
divided into three lobes, rising to a conforming
everted foliate rim, all supported on three
tapered short feet, applied overall with a rich
purple glaze streaked with shades of milky-blue
and pooling to a lavender tone in the recesses
Height 12¾ in., 32.4 cm
A small number of Qianlong period ß ambé-
glazed vases of this extremely unusual trilobate
form are known. Compare one in the Qing
Court Collection in Beijing illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum, Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong,
1999, pl. 183. Another was sold at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 30th April 2001, lot 718, and is now
in the collection of Alan Chuang, illustrated in
Julian Thompson, The Alan Chuang Collection
of Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009, pl. 66.
A third was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27th
April 2003, lot 246.

$ 20,000-30,000
㶭Ḧ昮ġġġ䩘嬲慱ᶱ倗䒞

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