QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A TEA-DUST-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase has a compressed globular body raised on a spreading foot and is covered overall with a finely speckled, opaque glaze of dark tea-dust color which also covers the base surrounding the tortoiseshell-glazed mark.
13 in. (33 cm.) high

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 17 September 2003, lot 108.
Michael L. Vermeer, Atlanta, Georgia.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

A similar tea-dust-glazed vase of this shape and size in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 48, no. 25; and another is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pp. 256-57, no. 936.

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