CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE À SIX CARACTÈRES EN CACHET EN CREUX ET ÉPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

Flambé-glazed ‘pomegranate’ vases of this type include one illustrated by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection, Geneva: Chinese Ceramics, vol. III, no. A291; another published in Ming and Qing Ceramics and Works of Art from the Osaka Museum, p. 46, fig. 209; and a third illustrated by Liu Liang-yu in Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, vol. 5, p. 207. Additional examples have appeared at auction, including one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 7 July 2003, lot 692; one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2287; and another at Christie’s New York, 24 September 2021, lot 873.