A FINE CELADON-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE AND COVER

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A FINE CELADON-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE AND COVER
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Potted without a foot, of regular double-gourd shape with large spherical lower body and pear-shaped smaller upper body separated by a narrow waist, the small stopper-cover with a short stem, all under a fine and even pale sea-green celadon glaze (cover tip polished)
13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm.) high

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 37.

Exhibited

Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Joint exhibition by the Urban Council, and the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1995/1996, Catalogue, pl. 212.

Lot Essay

A similar example from the Nanjing Museum was included in the Exhibition of Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, 1995, Catalogue, no.69; another from the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection is illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. I, col. pl. 106. A slightly smaller example, measuring 19.8 cm. high, from the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated in the Catalogue, Volume Two, p. 209, col. pl. 864.

(US$22,000-26,000)

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