A FINE FLAMBÉ-GLAZED VASE INCISED SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

superbly potted with tapered swelling sides rising from a recessed base to a short waisted neck and lipped rim, covered on the exterior with a smooth and glossy brilliant raspberry glaze transmuting to a plum-coloured glaze with milky-lavender streaks drizzling down from the neck over the shoulders and towards the foot, the mushroom-coloured mouth figured with russet patches, the interior applied with a lavender-blue glaze cascading down from the rim leaving bare some patches of orange burnt biscuit on the interior walls, the base dressed with a mottled celadon and toffee-coloured glaze covering the incised six-character seal mark

An old Japanese private collection.

Chūgoku Bijutsu-ten Series 5 Min Shin no Bijutsu/ Chinese Art Exhibition Series 5: Art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka, 1980, cat. no. 1-208.

The vase is in good condition, with just minor surface wear.
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A larger Qianlong vase of this type was sold in these rooms, 20^th May 1987, lot 525; and another, but lacking a reign mark, was sold in our London rooms, 18^th June 1985, lot 186. Compare also a vase of this form, but of larger size and covered in a Ru-type glaze, sold in our London rooms, 7^th December 1993, lot 275.