A TEADUST-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE

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A TEADUST-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
INCISED QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Covered in a thick, speckled green teadust glaze, the moulded waist with pendant and upright petal-shaped panels divided by a horizontal rib, the loop handles extending from the upper pear-shaped gourd and joined to the lower and larger globular gourd by ruyi terminals, the nianhao covered with a brown wash--10 1/8in. (25.8cm.) high

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Vases of this size and form with a teadust glaze and a Qianlong mark are illustrated in Chinese Ceramics, Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1989, pp. 301 and 330; in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 80; and in the Tokyo National Museum, Catalogue, no. 669. See also the example included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition of Monochrome Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1977, Catalogue, no. 100

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