AN EELSKIN-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE

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AN EELSKIN-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE
QIANLONG INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

With somewhat compressed lower body and wide cylindrical neck, covered inside and out with a dark mottled glaze of soft, grayish moss-green and olive-brown tone shading to deep russet brown on the mouth rim, the interior of the spreading pedestal foot similarly glazed, the glaze covering the nianhao also shading to russet brown
13 1/8in. (33.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

The dark 'eelskin' glaze on this vase appears to be a variation of the teadust glaze usually found on vases of this shape and date. For a teadust-glazed example see the vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 48, no. 25, and another illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pp. 256-257, no. 936