清雍正

Few flambe-glazed vases of this form and design are known and no other examples of this large size appear to have been published. The only two published examples of related but smaller (around 21 cm. high) form appear to be Yongzheng vase of near-identical form and size in the Palace Museum collection, illustrated in Gugong bowuguan cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi, Palace Museum Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Qing Dynasty: Official Ware of the Qing Dyansty, Vol. 1, Book II, Beijing, 2005, pp. 306-307, no. 139 (see fig. 1); and another formerly in the N.H.P Huth and E.T. Chow collections and now in the Meiyintang collection, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 2, London, 1994, p. 186, no. 834. A third example of the smaller size was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2009, lot 1826.

Compare with a guan-type Yongzheng-marked vase of the same form in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, pp. 249, pl. 78 and another relief decorated example in a celadon glaze illustrated, ibid, p. 276, pl. 105.

Cf. other related flambe-glazed vases bearing Yongzheng marks, although none of this exact form, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated ibid, pp. 278-281, pls. 107-110. Two slightly larger flambe-glazed examples of related form but both with flattened taotie handles have been sold: the first from the Jingguantang collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 564; the other sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1366.