A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE VASE

Details

A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

With a compressed lower body and flared foot, covered inside and out with a finely mottled dark olive-green glaze ending in a clean line at the edge of the unglazed foot rim covered in a brown slip, the base similarly glazed around the brown-glazed seal mark
13¼in. (33.6cm.) high, box

Provenance

T.Y. Chao Collection

Lot Essay

A similar vase of this shape and size in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 48, no. 25; and another is illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. II, pp. 256-257, no. 936. Compare, also, the vase sold in our Hong Kong rooms, October 8, 1990, lot 351, from the Jarras Collection, Part II