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A CLAIRE-DE-LUNE-GLAZED
QUATREFOIL CUP

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK
IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
(1736-1795)
The cup has deep quadrilobed sides that fare
gently from the high foot to the slightly everted rim
and is covered overall with a pale soft blue glaze
pooling to a darker shade in the recesses, and the
foot has a dark brown dressing.
3¬ in. (9.2 cm.) high

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of
Oregon.
清乾隆 月白釉四瓣花口盃 四字篆書款

1239 (mark)

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

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A MOLDED SOFT-PASTE CREAM-
GLAZED VASE

18TH CENTURY
The rounded body is molded with a continuous
leafy, peony and hibiscus scroll below a band of
ruyi-heads at the shoulder, and the neck has a
band of upright leaves below a ruyi-head border at
the rim. The vase is covered overall with a crackle-
sufused glaze of ivory tone.
12¡ in. (31.5 cm.) high

$7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE

J. P. Morgan Collection, no. 1358.
The Mercher Collection, no. 321.
Mrs. Norma Gruber Schofeld Collection.
Christie’s New York, 4 December 1982, lot 459.

LITERATURE

Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese
Porcelains, Vol. 2, New York, 1911, pl. CXLIII, p. 86,
no. 1358.
清十八世紀 粉定釉模印纏枝花卉紋長頸瓶

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