Page 46 - Yamanaka co Auction catalog

67-PEACOCK-BLUE VASE (Ch'ien-lung)
Large bottle-form, with ovoid body and short, thick neck.
Coated with a glaze of great brilliance, in the hue ap-
proaching "turquoise-green" which is denominated peacock-
blue, with various mottlings and a vigorous crackle of
almost uniform character. Has a two-tier carved teakwood
stand.
Height, 13 inches.

68-LARGE TURQUOISE-BLUE VASE (Ch'ien-lung)
Grand bottle-shape, the superbly molded ovoid body broad,
supported on a deep foot, and rounding into a most grace-
fully sloping broad shoulder out of which rises a perfectly
proportioned full neck, ending in a flaring lip. Clear
white porcelain covered with a turquoise glaze of rich qual-
ity, finely crackled, and exhibiting the light cloudings which
contribute so much to the agreeable charm of this glaze.
The glaze,with the crackle, is continued all the way down
into the interior of the wide neck. Carved teakwood stand.
Height, 13% inches.

69- FLAMBE VASE (Ch'ien-lung)
Globular bottle-shape on a bold spreading foot, with tall
and graceful neck tapering lightly and expanding again
to the lip. Clear, vibrant, imperial porcelain, coated with
a brilliant transmutation glaze which over large portions
of the spherical body is of a rare and fine grayish-sea-green
hue and seems to be in motion amongst the tumbling
splashes and falls of purple, blue and red, like heaving and
tumbling surf. The glaze exhibits a varying crackle, which
is continued on the interior of the neck. Underneath the
foot the imperial seal-mark of Ch'ien-lung is incised below
the glaze, which here is marbled in soft gray and iron-rust
hue. Has stand.
Height, 15% inches.