Lot Essay
The shape and glaze of this vase are based on Song guanyao prototypes, such as the vase illustrated in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 1993, p. 297 (bottom right). A similar vase with Qianlong mark was included in the exhibition, Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1987, p. 75. See, also, the similar vase sold at Rockefeller Center, 21 March 2000, Lot 383.