A SMALL BLUE-GLAZED POMEGRANATE-FORM VASE

HAORAN TANG HALL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)

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A SMALL BLUE-GLAZED POMEGRANATE-FORM VASE
HAORAN TANG HALL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE, DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)
The vase is finely potted with a globular body rising to a waisted neck that supports a flared mouth in the form of five barbed sepals, the exterior is painted with a white slip on one side to depict a flowering branch and a smaller branch on the other side, and is covered overall with a lustrous pale blue glaze except for the unglazed foot ring.
3 ¼ in. ( 7.7 cm.) high, wood box

Lot Essay

Compare a very similar pomegranate-form vase with this hall mark illustrated in Zijincheng de jiyi: tushuo qinggong ciqi dangan (Memories of the Forbidden City: Illustrated Catalogue of the Qing Palace Records of Porcelains), Beijing, 2016, p. 66-67, no. 29, and another pair was sold at Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2012, lot 247.

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