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TWO COPPER-RED-GLAZED BOWLS

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN
UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-
1795)

Each has deep, rounded sides that fare

towards the rim and is covered on the

exterior with a glaze of deep crushed-

strawberry-red color. Together with a copper-

red-glazed bowl, Qianlong six-character seal

mark and of the period, with deep, rounded

sides that rise to a slightly everted rim, the

exterior covered in a glaze of dark crushed-

strawberry-red color.

7√ in. (19.5 cm.) diam.; 7æ in. (19.7 cm.)

diam. (3)

$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE:

Michael L. Vermeer, Atlanta, Georgia.

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

The vase has a compressed globular body
raised on a spreading foot and is covered
overall with a fnely speckled, opaque glaze
of dark tea-dust color which also covers the
base surrounding the tortoiseshell-glazed
mark.
13 in. (33 cm.) high

$15,000-25,000

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby’s New York, 17 September 2003,
lot 108.
Michael L. Vermeer, Atlanta, Georgia.

A similar tea-dust-glazed vase of this shape
and size in the Victoria and Albert Museum is
illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain
of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London,
1986, p. 48, no. 25; and another is illustrated
by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang
Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pp. 256-57,
no. 936.

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