A FINE FLAMBE-GLAZED VASE, FANGHU

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A FINE FLAMBE-GLAZED VASE, FANGHU
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Of rectangular section, moulded on either side with a peach-form panel, supported on a conforming foot and applied with two lug-handles at the waisted neck, covered overall in a characteristic red glaze streaked with shades of lavender and blue and thinning to cream at the rim, on the handles and indented corners, the interior of the foot covered with yellowish-brown glaze
11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high, stand, Japanese wood box

Provenance

A Japanese Collection

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar Qianlong-marked vase illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 47. Another bearing a Qianlong seal mark is illustrated by de Vasselot and Ballot, The Louvre Museum, Chinese Ceramics, Paris, 1922, pl. 35; and another unmarked example of slightly smaller size (12 in.) in the collection of W.T. Walters, is illustrated by S.W. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, New York, 1980 reprint, col. pl. XLVI.

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