A TEADUST-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE

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A TEADUST-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE
QIANLONG INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Covered overall with a finely speckled, opaque glaze of rich teadust color, the base similarly glazed around the brown-glazed nianhao, the unglazed foot rim covered with a brown slip
13in. (33cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

A similar vase of this shape and size in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 48, no. 25, and another is illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, pp. 256-257, no. 936. Compare, also, the vase sold in our Hong Kong rooms, October 8, 1990, The Jarras Collection, Part II, lot 351