Lot Essay
See a similar Qianlong mark and period flambé vase, hu from the Huaihaitang Collection, illustrated in Ethereal Elegance, Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing, The Huaihaitang Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, pp. 242-243, no. 78. Another comparable vase is exhibited in the Musée Guimet, Paris, under the inventory number G/3769.