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

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

The sides moulded with a pair of inverted vase-form handles below the high shoulder, covered with a finely mottled glaze of rich turquoise and lapis tones continuing over the slightly lipped rim and on the base--9in. (23cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

An example dating from the earlier period and similar to the vase offered, is in the Musee Guimet Collection, Paris, illustrated in The World's Great Collections: Oriental Ceramcs, no. 184; another, by du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 220, fig. 3

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