A FINE AND VERY RARE LAVENDER-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. J. INSLEY BLAIR PROCEEDS IN PART TO BENEFIT THE MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, SALISBURY COVE, MAINE

A FINE AND VERY RARE LAVENDER-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Details

A FINE AND VERY RARE LAVENDER-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The vase is exquisitely potted with the angled shoulder tapering to a tall slim cylindrical neck. It is covered overall with a soft lavender glaze with the exception of the base bearing the seal mark written in three vertical lines under a transparent glaze.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, wood stand

Provenance

J. Insley Blair (1870-1939) and thence by descent to the present owners

Literature

The J. Insley Blair Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Tuxedo Park, New York, 1925, pl. III, no. 116

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Lot Essay

Compare to a pair of vases of this same size, shape and glaze, formerly in the J. P. Morgan and Peter A.B. Widener Collections, now in National Gallery of Art, Washington, illustrated in Decorative Arts, Part II, Oxford University Press, 1989, p. 86. Another example, also of same shape and glaze, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and was bequeathed by Benjamin Altman in 1913, who was a contemporary of J. Insley Blair (acquisition no.: 14.40.31).

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