QIANLONG INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

A number of similar vases with Qianlong mark have been published. One in the Grandidier Collection, the Musée Guimet, Paris, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 7, no. 184; another from the Jingdezhen Pottery and Porcelain Museum, Jiangxi province is illustrated in China's Jingdezhen Porcelain through the Ages: Qing Dynasty, 1998, no. 235; and one is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, Taipei, 1991, vol. 5, p. 167. See, also, A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, New Jersey, 1984, p. 220, no. 3, where the shape is described as denglongzun.