A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE

Similar vases of this shape and size are known, including a pair formerly in the Toguri Museum of Art; one sold in these Rooms, 30 May 2006, lot 1354, the other sold at Sotheby's London, 9 June 2004, lot 11; compare also one from the T. Y. Chao Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 20 March 1997, lot 128; one illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, no. 936; one from the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, fig. 25.