JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

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A RARE MOTTLED GREEN AND BROWN-GLAZED VASE
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
Of lantern shape applied with a pair of inverted vase-form handles, covered overall with a finely mottled glaze of brown on greenish-turquoise which also covers the base and the nianhao
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Collection of James W. Kiriakaracos, London, 1920s.

Lot Essay

Vases of this type are sometimes referred to as 'denglong zun' or 'lantern vases', and are usually covered in robin's egg glaze. A robin's egg blue example with an incised Jiaqing seal mark and of the period and in the collection of the Musée Guimet, Paris, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, no. 184.

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