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A SMALL TEA-DUST-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INSCRIBED SEAL
MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The vase with bulbous body and neck that
tapers to a galleried rim is covered overall
with a glaze of dark olive-green color that
also covers the base around the mark which
is covered with a glaze of mottled brown
color.
7Ω in. (19 cm.) high

$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE:

Christie’s New York, 18 September 2003,
lot 344.
Michael L. Vermeer, Atlanta, Georgia.

Compare the similar vase with the more usual
tea-dust glaze, and Qianlong mark, illustrated
in Porcelain from the Tianjin Municipal
Museum, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 162. Another
is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in
the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994,
p. 256, no. 935, and another is illustrated by J.
Ayers in Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection,
London, 1985, p. 164, no. 135, where the
author notes that the darker glaze is typical of
the later period. See, also, the similar Qianlong-
marked vase from the Goldschmidt Collection
sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 13 November
1990, lot 64.

清乾隆 茶葉末釉天球瓶
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