A FINE JUN-TYPE FLAMBE-GLAZED VASE

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A FINE JUN-TYPE FLAMBE-GLAZED VASE
IMPRESSED YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Of strongly potted mallet form, the broad slightly tapered lower body moulded with a single rib around the shoulder, the tall cylindrical neck rising to a cup-shaped mouth and applied with a pair of pierced dragon handles, covered overall with an attractive lavender-streaked purple glaze fading to a mushroom colour around the rim and at the handles, the interior with a pale milky-blue glaze, the base glazed brown and splashed with celadon-green over the impressed mark
10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar flambe-glazed vase included in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Special Exhibition of Qing Monochromes, 1981, Catalogue, no. 20; and another in the Palace Museum, Beijing, with a streaky crimson glaze running down the lower body, is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 281, no. 110. A vase of this form but with a flambe glaze more closely related to the Beijing example, was sold in our London Rooms, 11 June 1990, lot 160.

(US$50,000-65,000)

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