Lot Essay
Only one other vase of this size and elegant shape with a flambé glaze is known, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 1995, lot 89. A smaller version (19.7 cm. high) with Qianlong mark, from the Salting Bequest, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, pl. 3.