A Fine Teadust-Glazed Bottle Vase Incised Seal Mark and Period of Qianlong

well potted with a compressed globular body supported on a slightly flared foot, surmounted by a broad cylindrical neck and a rounded mouthrim, covered overall with an olive-coloured glaze flecked with a fine yellow mist, the glaze stopping neatly above the foot, the recessed base incised with a six-character seal mark beneath a brown glaze, the rounded footing left unglazed and dressed in a brown wash, wood stand

An old Japanese collection.

In overall good condition.
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A closely related example in the Meiyintang collection is published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2,  pl. 936. See also a similar vase from the T.Y. Chao collection sold in these rooms, 19th May 1987, lot 294, and another example sold more recently, 8th October 2013, lot 3067. See also a slightly larger vase of this type in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, included in Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, pl. 25.