AN UNUSUAL SMALL COPPER-RED-DECORATED CELADON-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE

QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK (1736-95) AND PROBABLY OF THE PERIOD

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AN UNUSUAL SMALL COPPER-RED-DECORATED CELADON-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK (1736-95) AND PROBABLY OF THE PERIOD
The globular body with a thin cylindrical neck, the shoulder applied with a relief-moulded chilong splashed in underglaze copper-red, all under a pale celadon glaze with scattered iron splashes imitating marble, the foot covered with a dark brown dressing
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high

Sale room notice

Please note the base section of the vase had previously been re-glued and whilst on the view has become separate.

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Lot Essay

Compare the very similar bottle sold in our New York rooms, 17 September 2008, lot 492; and the pair of slightly larger bottles sold in the same rooms, 16-17 September 2010, lot 1453. A yet larger vase of similar type is in the collection of the National Museum of China, illustrated in Zhongguo Guo Jia Bowuguan, Shanghai, 2006, p. 181, no. 119.

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