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A CELADON-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
Qianlong seal mark and of the period
Elegantly potted with a narrow waist between the slightly
compressed globular lower bulb and smaller upper bulb, gently rising
from the shoulder to a narrow mouth, covered overall with a pale
sea-green glaze thining to white at the rim, with a matching cover,
the recessed celadon-glazed foot enclosed within an unglazed ring
and inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character mark.
12 1/2in (31.7cm) high
$60,000 - 90,000

清乾隆 粉青釉葫蘆瓶帶蓋 《大清乾隆年製》款

Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Eliot A Carter, 1991

For other examples of double-gourd vases with matching covers,
see one in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection,
vol. 1, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 160; another in the collection of the
Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain
of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Hong Kong, 1995,
Catalogue no.69, and also illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty:
The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty Zhongguo
qingdai guanyao ciqi, Shanghai, 2003, p.341; and another from the
Jingguantang collection, illustrated in Splendour of the Qing Dynasty,
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 212, and sold
at Christie’s, Hong Kong, 28 October 2002, lot 723.

See also a vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
illustrated by S.G.Valenstein, The Hertzman Collection of Chinese
Ceramics, New York, 1992, pl.98; and another illustrated in Qing
Imperial Monochromes: The Zande Lou Collection, Shanghai, 2005,
pl.42.

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