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

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A FLAMBÉ-GLAZED 'POMEGRANATE’ VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The hexalobed vase with conforming neck and everted rim, is raised on a low spreading foot and covered overall with a glaze of crushed strawberry-red color streaked with purple and milky blue that runs between the lobes. The rim and interior are covered with a pale blue glaze.
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Kochukyo, Tokyo.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Flambé-glazed ‘pomegranate’ vases of this type include one illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection Geneva - Chinese Ceramics, vol. III, no. A291; one illustrated in Ming and Qing Ceramics and Works of Art from the Osaka Museum, p. 46, fig. 209; one illustrated by Liu Liang-Yu, Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, vol. 5, p. 207; and another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 7 July 2003, lot 692

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