AN UNUSUAL PALE BLUE-GLAZED CARVED PEAR-SHAPED VASE

18TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL PALE BLUE-GLAZED CARVED PEAR-SHAPED VASE
18TH CENTURY
The bulbous body and waisted neck are well carved in low relief with bands of highly stylized archaistic decoration, all between a band of key fret below the mouth rim and a band of triangular overlapping blade tips encircling the splayed foot. The vase is covered inside and out with a glaze of pale sky-blue color that thins on the decoration.
14 ¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Christie's New York, 22 March 2007, lot 387.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.

Lot Essay

Compare the Qianlong-marked vase of similar shape and with similar decoration, but of larger size and covered with a celadon glaze, included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Monochromes: The Zande Lou Collection, Shanghai Museum, Beijing Museum, and the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005, pp. 122-23, no. 44.

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