Sale 7004
London
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7 June 2004
Price realised
GBP 5,019
Estimate
A FLAMBÉ-GLAZED MEIPING QIANLONG (1736-95) With rounded shoulders above a spreading base and below a short tapering neck, covered overall in a purplish-red glaze streaked with lavender and thinning to a mushroom colour towards the rim, the base unglazed 15¾ in. (40 cm.) high
Provenance
E. T. Hall Collection, no. 446
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