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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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A TEADUST-GLAZED VASE
QIANLONG IMPRESSED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase has a compressed body and cylindrical neck and is covered overall with an opaque glaze of fnely
mottled dark yellowish-green color that continues into the interior and also covers the base surrounding
the tortoise-shell-glazed mark, and the foot is covered with a dark wash.
13 in. (33 cm.) high, box
$100,000-150,000
A teadust-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, no. 25; and another is
illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pp. 256-57,
no. 936.
清乾隆 茶葉末釉荸薺瓶 六字篆書印款
(mark)
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