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Lot Essay
Compare the flambé-glazed vase of this shape and slightly larger size, also with Qianlong mark illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. I, no. 1080, and another of slightly smaller size illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, London, 1987, pl. 210.
Vases of this type are most likely based on junyao prototypes of Song date, such as the purple-splashed pale blue bottle vase in the Freer Gallery of Art illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, the World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 9, col. pl 12.
Vases of this type are most likely based on junyao prototypes of Song date, such as the purple-splashed pale blue bottle vase in the Freer Gallery of Art illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, the World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 9, col. pl 12.