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

The precise and crisply moulded decorative motifs on this vase are clearly influenced by earlier archaic bronze vessels, created to satisfy the Emperor Qianlong's keen interest in archaism. A vase of identical size and design, from the Robert Chang Collection, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 October 2000, lot 802. Another identical vase is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics from the Koger Collection, 1985, no. 140. For a Yongzheng-marked vase of identical shape but with slightly differing decoration, refer to the example illustrated by Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Vol. 2, 1999, pl. 307 (A421).