Lot Essay
Compare a larger example, with slightly different shape and design, from the Robert Chang Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 October 2000, lot 802.
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IMPRESSED QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
Details
A RARE SOFT-PASTE VASE
IMPRESSED QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
Thinly potted with rounded sides rising from a high splayed foot to sharp shoulders and a slender neck flaring to an upturned mouth, crisply moulded around the neck with a dense scrolling foliage, above a band of key pattern around the neck and lotus petals around the base, covered overall in a widely-crackled transparent glaze stopping neatly above the foot rim
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high
IMPRESSED QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
Thinly potted with rounded sides rising from a high splayed foot to sharp shoulders and a slender neck flaring to an upturned mouth, crisply moulded around the neck with a dense scrolling foliage, above a band of key pattern around the neck and lotus petals around the base, covered overall in a widely-crackled transparent glaze stopping neatly above the foot rim
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high
Provenance
E. T. Hall Collection, no. 152
Special notice
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