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A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
stoutly potted with the compressed globular body
rising from a splayed foot to a tall cylindrical neck,
applied overall with a mottled olive-green glaze
ß ecked with a Þ ne golden-yellow mist, the foot ring
dressed in a dark wash, the base incised with a six-
character seal mark reserved in a square beneath a
brown glaze, Japanese wood box (3)
Height 13¼ in., 33.5 cm
A pair of closely related vases preserved in the
Seikado Bunko Museum, Tokyo, was included in
the Museum’s exhibition, Seikado zo Shincho toji.
Keitokuchin kanyo no bi [Qing porcelain collected
in the Seikado. Beauty of the Jingdezhen imperial
kilns], Tokyo, 2006, cat. no. 109; one from the
Meiyintang Collection, is illustrated in Regina Krahl,
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,
London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 936; and another,
but with a pale rim, from the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, is published in Rose Kerr, Chinese
Ceramics. Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911,
London, 1986, pl. 25. Further Qianlong marked
teadust-glazed vases of this type include one from
the collection of Gerson and Judith Leiber, recently
sold in these rooms, 20th March 2018, lot 437; one
sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 3rd October 2017,
lot 3665; another in these rooms, 13th September
2017, lot 24; and one sold at Christie’s New York,
17th March 2017, lot 1245. Compare also a similar
vase from the T.Y. Chao Collection, sold in our Hong
Kong rooms, 19th May 1987, lot 294, and again at
Christie’s New York, 20th March 1997, lot 128.
$ 50,000-70,000
㶭Ḧ昮ġġġ勞叱㛓慱匠啢䒞
˪⣏㶭Ḧ昮⸜墥˫㫦

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