A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE VASE
A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE VASE

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A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG IMPRESSED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Strongly potted with a compressed globular lower body surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck and raised on a slightly flared foot, covered entirely with a finely speckled olive-green glaze
8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.) high, stand, box

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.

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