A SMALL TEADUST-GLAZED OVOID VASE, HU IMPRESSED QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. JAMES ALSDORF

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A SMALL TEADUST-GLAZED OVOID VASE, HU IMPRESSED QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The bulbous sides tapering at the neck and footrim, covered in an even, finely speckled olive-green glaze thinning to dark reddish-brown at the rounded mouth rim and stopping short of the incurved foot, the recessed base glazed, the nianhao under a dark-brown wash--5½in. (14cm.) high, box

Exhibited

Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf, September 21-November 13, 1970, no. c73.

Lot Essay

Compare a similar teadust-glazed vase with a Yongzheng mark, but with fluted sides and slightly larger in size, illustrated in Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong from the Palace Musuem Collection, 1989, pl. 131

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