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                                                                              A TEADUST-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
                                                                              QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
                                                                              the compressed globular body resting on
                                                                              a splayed foot and surmounted by a slim
                                                                              cylindrical neck, covered overall in an olive-
                                                                              green glaze flecked with moss-green speckles,
                                                                              the footring applied with a dark brown wash,
                                                                              the base incised with a six-character seal mark
                                                                              beneath a brown glaze
                                                                              Height 13¼ in., 33.6 cm
                                                                              PROVENANCE
                                                                              L. Wannieck, Paris (according to label).
                                                                              A similar vase from the Meiyintang Collection
                                                                              is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics
                                                                              from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London,
                                                                              1994, pl. 936; and another 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 sold recently in these
                                                                              rooms, 12th September 2018, lot 139; one from
                                                                              the collection of Gerson and Judith Leiber, sold
                                                                              in the same rooms, 20th March 2018, lot 437;
                                                                              one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 3rd October
                                                                              2017, lot 3665; and another in these rooms,
                                                                              13th September 2017, lot 24. 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.
                                                                              $ 40,000-60,000


                                                                              清乾隆   茶葉末釉荸薺瓶
                                                                              《大清乾隆年製》款
                                                                              來源
                                                                              L. Wannieck,巴黎 (標籤)
































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