QIANLONG INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINE AND RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE
QIANLONG INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The gently tapering neck rising from the compressed body, covered with a mauve glaze streaked with purple, thinning to white and pale blue near the mouth, the interior covered with a pale-blue and purple- streaked glaze, the base covered with a straw-colored glaze
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in Boston in 1995.

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Lot Essay

A nearly identical flambé-glazed vase of the same height, also bearing an incised Qianlong seal mark, is in the Wang Xing Lou Collection, illustrated in Imperial Perfection: The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors - Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 228-9, no. 89. Another similarly shaped vase of identical height, with an incised Qianlong mark, was sold in these rooms, 19 September 2006, lot 370. A slightly smaller example, similarly marked and dated, is illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics - Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1986, pp. 20-1, fig. 3.

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