A FINE AND RARE TEADUST-GLAZED FACETTED VASE, HU

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A FINE AND RARE TEADUST-GLAZED FACETTED VASE, HU
QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Of characteristic flattened hexagonal shape, the waisted neck flanked by a pair of tubular handles, applied overall with an even dark olive-green glaze finely speckled with yellowish-green dusting, the foot rim and mark applied with a brown wash
13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm.) high, stand, box

Provenance

The Manno Art Museum, Osaka, no. 363, previously sold in these Rooms, One Man's Vision: Important Chinese Art from the Manno Art Museum, 28 October 2002, lot 560

Lot Essay

A similar vase was included in the 1988 Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Iron in the Fire, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 89, and on the front cover; and another from the W. W. Winkworth collection was sold at Sotheby's London, 12 December 1972, lot 130. A larger vase of this form and with a teadust glaze is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 965.

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