A FINE ROBIN'S-EGG-GLAZED LANTERN-SHAPED VASE

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A FINE ROBIN'S-EGG-GLAZED LANTERN-SHAPED VASE
IMPRESSED QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The sides are moulded in low relief with a pair of inverted vase-shaped handles below the shoulder, covered with an unctuous turquoise glaze suffused with lapis-blue droplets continuing over the slightly lipped rim to the interior and on the base
9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Similar examples are found in the Musee Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, no. 184; one in the Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum, illustrated in Keitokuchin Jiki, pl. 88 (bottom left); one included in An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 1993, Catalogue, no. 49; and another illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 220, fig. 3.

(US$8,000-10,000)

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