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PROPERTY FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ART ACQUISITIONS FUND (mark)

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A FLAMBÉ-GLAZED VASE

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The urn-shaped body is molded with a bowstring band below the sloping shoulder. The neck is fanked by
a pair of trailing scroll handles below the metal-bound rim. The whole is covered with a glaze of crushed
strawberry tone streaked in milky and purplish blue and thinning to white on the handles.
8 in. (20.4 cm.) high

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

Mrs. Sylvia Orrell Collection.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, accessioned in 1975.

A similar vase from the Gerald M. Greenwald Collection was sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011,
lot 1785.
清乾隆 窯變釉雙耳瓶 六字篆書刻款

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