PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. JAMES ALSDORF
A SMALL RU-TYPE VASE, HU

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A SMALL RU-TYPE VASE, HU
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Of faceted octagonal section supported on a conforming foot, the pear-shaped body rising to a broad neck flanked by a pair of tubular lug handles, covered inside and out in an even, opaque, pale blue glaze stopping short of the brown-dressed footrim--5¾in. (14.8cm.) 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. c72.

Lot Essay

Qianlong-marked vases of this form and size with a guan-type glaze are in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the exhibition, Qing Monochrome Porcelain, 1981, Catalogue, no. 89; in the Baur Collection, Catalogue, vol. III, no. A343; and in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, Section I, nos. A 89 and 90. Others are in the Garner Collection, included in the O.C.S. Exhibition, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1964, Catalogue no. 276 and in the Kempe Collection, Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of Carl Kempe, Stockholm, 1966, no. 210

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