A RARE 'SKY-BLUE'-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
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A RARE 'SKY-BLUE'-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE

QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE 'SKY-BLUE'-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase has a compressed globular body raised on a spreading pedestal foot with brown-dressed rim, and is surmounted by a tall neck that flares towards the rim. The exterior, interior and interior of the foot are covered with a soft sky-blue glaze.
15 in. (38 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Vases of this shape, with a subtly compressed body and an elegantly flaring, slender neck, were produced in the Qianlong reign in a variety of monochrome glazes. For a vase of similar shape covered in a crackled, pale lavender-blue glaze, from the Collection of J.P. Morgan, see S. Bushell and W. Laffan, Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, New York, 1907, no. M24; later included in the above exhibtion at Marchant & Son, London, no. 30, p. 44.

Another Qianlong-marked vase of this same, distinguished profile, covered in a flambé glaze, is illustrated by R. Krahl, in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. IV (II), London, 2010, p. 367, no. 1812.

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