A JUN-TYPE POMEGRANATE VASE

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A JUN-TYPE POMEGRANATE VASE
IMPRESSED QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The vase with six evenly lobed sides and short cylindrical neck rising to a flared floral-form rim, covered overall in a flambe glaze suffused with evenly-divided vertical strips of creamy-purplish-blue in the recesses, the interior and lip rim covered in pale blue (small nick to biscuit at foot rim)
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Similar vases are illustrated in Ming and Qing Ceramics and Works of Art from the Osaka Museum p. 46, fig. 209; in The Baur Collection, vol.III, no. A 291 and by Liu Liang-yu in Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, vol. 5, p. 207.

A Daoguang version is illustrated in Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, p. 359, col. pl. 226.

(US$5,000-6,000)

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