A FINE AND RARE TEADUST-GLAZED FACETTED VASE, HU
A FINE AND RARE TEADUST-GLAZED FACETTED VASE, HU

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A FINE AND RARE TEADUST-GLAZED FACETTED VASE, HU
INCISED QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Of characteristic flattened hexagonal shape, the waisted neck flanked by a pair of tubular handles, applied overall with an even dark olive-green glaze finely speckled with yellowish-green dusting, the footrim and mark applied with a brown wash
13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm.) high, box
Provenance
Manno Art Museum, no. 363.

Lot Essay

A similar vase was included in the 1988 Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Iron in the Fire, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 89, and on the front cover; and another from the W. W. Winkworth Collection was sold in London, 12 December 1972, lot 130. A larger vase of this form and with a teadust glaze is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 965.

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