A FINE AND VERY RARE TEADUST-GLAZED QUATREFOIL VASE

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A FINE AND VERY RARE TEADUST-GLAZED QUATREFOIL VASE
QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Of an elegant baluster shape, the vase is finely potted with compressed quatre-lobed sides rising to a gently waisted neck flanked by a pair of zoomorphic loop handles, the everted lipped mouth rim and splayed foot of conforming foliate section, covered overall with an attractive olive-green glaze with fine yellow speckles
11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

No other vase of this shape and with teadust glaze appears to be recorded.

Compare, instead, a slightly taller vase (31.5 cm.) of this exact form covered with a ge-type glaze, previously from the T. Y. Chao Private and Family Trust Collection, exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, 1973, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 20, and sold in these Rooms, 31 March 1992, lot 577.

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