QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED AND POSSIBLY LATE IN THE PERIOD

The present vase is related to a group of Qianlong-marked, blue-enameled porcelain vessels which include a moonflask also in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989 ed., p. 270, no. 279, and a circular box and cover from the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by S. Peirson and A. Barnes in A Collector's Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong Emperor, London, 2002, p. 62, no. 52.