Lot Essay
Similar vases of this shape and size are known, one illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, no. 917; and another from the Hall Family Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 559. Slightly larger teadust-glazed vases of this shape include one from the T. Y. Chao Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 20 March 1997, lot 128; one from the Jarras Collection, Part II, sold in these Rooms, 8 October 1990, lot 351; and another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 48, no. 25.