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AN IMPERIAL FLAMBÉ-GLAZED VASE, HU

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF
THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The deep bowl-shaped body raised on a spreading foot has a bow-
string border below the shoulder and a pair of trailing scroll handles
fanking the neck, and is covered with a glaze of crushed strawberry-
red color streaked in purple and milky blue.
8æ in. (22.2 cm.) high
$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE

Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Johnson Spink, St. Louis, Missouri.
Bluett & Sons, London.
The Marie Theresa L. Virata (1923-2015) Collection.
Compare the similar vase, also with Qianlong mark, from the Gerald
M. Greenwald Collection sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011,
lot 1785. See, also, another example in The Capital Museum, Beijing,
illustrated by Xiong Liao, Beauty of Ceramics, Gems of Oficial Kilns,
Taipei, 1993, p. 147.

清乾隆 窯變釉雙耳瓶 六字篆書刻款
來源
Johnson Spink伉儷，密蘇里州聖路易斯
Bluett & Sons，倫敦
瑪麗·泰瑞莎·L·維勒泰 (1923-2015) 珍藏
可比較與本拍品近似之Gerald M. Greenwald 故藏乾隆款窯變釉
瓶，於紐約佳士得拍出，2011年3月24日，拍品1785號。亦可參
考一件首都博物館藏之例，見熊寥，《官窯名瓷》，台北，1993
年，147頁。

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