A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE

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

The bulbous lower bulb and elongated upper bulb separated by a narrow bowstring band flanked above and below by bands of molded petals, with a pair of scroll handles terminating on the lower bulb in a ruyi head, covered allover in a finely mottled, opaque glaze of rich tone thinning to rust brown on the raised areas, and the nianhao reserved in rust brown on the teadust-glazed base
8in. (20.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the large Qianlong double-gourd bottle vase illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, p. 258, no. 938

Vases of this form with a teadust glaze and a Qianlong mark are illustrated in Zhongguo taoci daxi (Chinese Ceramic Series), Qingdai taoci daquan (Qing dynasty ceramics), Taipei, 1987/89, 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