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

Elegantly potted with the large spherical lower body separated from the smaller pear-shaped body by a narrow waist, the small stopper-cover with a short stem, all under a fine and even pale sea-green celadon glaze (tip of cover polished)
13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm.) high, box

Provenance

The Jingguantang Collection, sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 571.

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 37, with the pair to this vase.

Exhibited

Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Joint Exhibition by the Urban Coucil, 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$25,000-40,000)

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