A WHITE-GLAZED SOFT-PASTE VASE

Details

A WHITE-GLAZED SOFT-PASTE VASE
INCISED QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Of compressed globular shape, the lower body molded with a band of petal lappets above a flared foot incised with a band of keyfret repeated above a band of pendent lappets on the upper body, with taotie masks and archaistic scroll incised on the shoulder and a double band of dots and upright lappets on the neck, the flattened garlic mouth decorated with detached leaf scrolls, the ivory-colored glaze with overall light crackle--8 in. (20.3cm.) high

Provenance

Chait Galleries, New York

Lot Essay

For an identical vase see John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics from the Koger Collection, 1985, no. 140. For a vase of identical shape but slightly differing design and with impressed Yongzheng seal mark, see the example illustrated by Ayers in The Baur Collection, vol. III, no. A42. For another example compare the vase from the Percival David Foundation, no. 445, included in the O.C.S. exhibition, The Ceramic Art of China, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971, Catalogue pl. 240