A RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED VASE, HU

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A RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED VASE, HU
INCISED QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The rounded lower body rises from a slightly spreading foot, encircled by two moulded ribs at the shoulder, below the tapering cylindrical neck and lipped mouth, with a pair of scroll loop handles, covered with a lustrous glaze of dark reddish-purple streaking to lavender below the handles and around the neck, the handles and the interior pale blue, the base washed in a pale greenish-brown
8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. other Qianlong flambé vases of this shape, one in the Capital Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Xiong Liao, Beauty of Ceramics. Gems of the Official Kilns, Taibei, 1993, pl. 147; two from the collection of Morisada Hosokawa, included in the exhibition, Shin no jiki. Perusha no toki, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, 1993, Catalogue nos. 52 and 53; and one from the Hall Family Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 560. A Yongzheng vase is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, 1999, pl. 259.

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