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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE Vases of this type are rare and only a small number of related
COLLECTION examples are known. Compare one, formerly in the collection
of the Rt. Hon. Lord Hollenden, sold in our London rooms, 27th
A FLAMBE-GLAZED VASE November 1973, lot 349. Another, acquired from Yamanaka
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD & Co. Beijing, in 1919, was sold at Christie’s London, 9th
November 2010, lot 218.
the ovoid body with steep sides rising to broad angled
shoulder, rounding at the elegantly waisted neck to an everted Vases of this form are also recorded in other monochrome
rim, set at the neck with two pierced scroll handles with glazes, evocative of Song dynasty wares. Compare a number
extended terminals, covered overall in a streaked raspberry- of Qianlong mark and period Ge-type vases, including one
red glaze running and pooling with streaks of lavender and illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the
violet, the interior applied with a light blue glaze, the base with Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 877; Compare a
the six-character seal mark incised and applied with a mottled similar vase sold in our London rooms, 10th June 1986, lot 291,
brown glaze and again in our Hong Kong rooms, 20th May 1987, lot 519.
Height 11⅜ in., 29cm A third example was rst sold in our London rooms, 12th July
2006, lot 134, and again in the same rooms, 16th September
PROVENANCE 2009, lot 217.

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2nd May 2005, lot 682. $ 80,000-120,000

This rare vase is remarkable for its vibrant hues of ruby 2005 5 2 682
streaked with lavender, created in imitation of the celebrated
Jun wares of the Song period. By the Qing dynasty, Jun
wares were regarded as objects of admiration at court as
well as amongst literati connoisseurs and wealthy merchant
collectors. The Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors sought to
reproduce the beautiful glaze e ects and graceful forms of Jun
wares by commissioning copies from the imperial workshops
at Jingdezhen. The streaks characteristic of this glaze are
known as yaobian (‘transmutation glaze’).

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