Tax exempt.

PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND*

A Fine Tea-Dust-Glazed Bottle Vase

QIANLONG INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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A Fine Tea-Dust-Glazed Bottle Vase
Qianlong incised seal mark and of the period
The compressed body with tall neck raised on a spreading foot, covered overall with a finely mottled opaque glaze of even rich teadust tone which also covers the interior of the base surrounding the golden-green glaze of the nianhao, the foot rim dressed in a dark brown slip
13in. (33cm.) high

Special notice

Tax exempt.

Lot Essay

A similar vase of this shape and size in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 48, no. 25; and another is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, pp. 256-257, no. 936. Compare, also, the vase from a private Hawaiian Collection and previously from the T.Y. Chao Collection sold in these rooms, 20 March 1997, lot 128.

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