AN IMPERIAL FLAMBÉ-GLAZED VASE, HU

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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AN IMPERIAL FLAMBÉ-GLAZED VASE, HU
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The deep bowl-shaped body raised on a spreading foot has a bow-string border below the shoulder and a pair of trailing scroll handles flanking the neck, and is covered with a glaze of crushed strawberry-red color streaked in purple and milky blue.
8 ¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Johnson Spink, St. Louis, Missouri.
Bluett & Sons, London.
The Marie Theresa L. Virata (1923-2015) Collection.

Lot Essay

Compare the similar vase, also with Qianlong mark, from the Gerald M. Greenwald Collection sold at Christie's New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1785. See, also, another example in The Capital Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Xiong Liao, Beauty of Ceramics, Gems of Official Kilns, Taipei, 1993, p. 147.

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