QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE SMALL RELIEF-DECORATED CELADON-GLAZED JAR
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The high-shouldered, tapering body has a short, upright neck and is decorated in low relief with leafy chrysanthemum scroll bearing four blossoms shown full face. The jar is covered inside and out, and on the base, with a soft, pale blue-green glaze that thins on the raised decoration.
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Private collection, United States, late 19th/early 20th century, and thence by descent within the family.

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Lot Essay

A pair of similar Qianlong-marked jars, with covers, in the Percival David Foundation, is illustrated by S. Pierson and A. Barnes in A Collector's Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong Emperor, London, 2002, p. 106, no. 93. A single example, with cover, is illustrated by J. Thompson in The Alan Chuang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009, no. 69.

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