A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE VASE

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A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG IMPRESSED SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The compressed globular body tapering towards the tall slender neck flaring slightly at the mouth rim, raised on a slightly spayed foot, covered overall with a lustrous glaze finely speckled dark olive-green tone
12 7/8 in. (32.5 cm.) high, wood stand, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Property of a Japanese collector

Lot Essay

A similar vase of this size in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, no. 25; and another is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pp. 256-7, no. 936. Compare, also, the vase sold in our New York Rooms, from the Ralph Heineger collection, 20 September 2002, lot 370.

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