A FINE RED-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE, yuhuchun, with flaring neck and slightly spreading foot, the exterior under an even liver-red glaze stopping neatly and pooling slightly darker above the foot and thinning slightly below the rim of the neck, the interior under a white glaze extending over the rim, and the base also white glazed,

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A FINE RED-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE, yuhuchun, with flaring neck and slightly spreading foot, the exterior under an even liver-red glaze stopping neatly and pooling slightly darker above the foot and thinning slightly below the rim of the neck, the interior under a white glaze extending over the rim, and the base also white glazed,

encircled Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period
24cm. high, fitted box

Lot Essay

A similar vase also dated by its reign mark to the Yongzheng period is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p.214:1; and an example with a wider neck in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, col.pl. 52

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