MOULDED QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

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A ROBIN'S-EGG-GLAZED LANTERN VASE
MOULDED QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
The ovoid vase with a short, slightly waisted neck standing on a short foot ring, moulded on either side in medium relief with a garlic-head-shaped handle, covered overall with a purplish-blue glaze profuse with turquoise speckles
9 1/8 in. (23 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Similar examples are found in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1982, no. 184; in the Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum, illustrated in Keitokuchin Jiki, pl. 88 (bottom left); one included in An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 1993, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 49; and another illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 220, fig. 3, which was sold at Christie's Hotel Okura, Tokyo, Part II, 16 and 17 February 1980, lot 838. Another very similar vase was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 31 October 2000, lot 870

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