A FINE FLAMBÉ-GLAZED 'POMEGRANATE' VASE INCISED SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAQING

the hexalobed globular body resting on a splayed foot, rising to a waisted neck with an everted lobed rim, vibrantly covered in a lustrous purplish-red glaze streaked with sky-blue pooling and accentuating the lobed form, draining to a mushroom tone with lavender streaks at the rim, the base incised with a six-character seal mark

A private Scottish collection.

The overall condition is very good with the exception of some typical glaze pittings and a few minor flakes of max. approx. 0.4 cm to the unglazed foot. The actual object is less reddish as suggested in the catalogue.
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The quality of the current vase compares favourably with earlier Qianlong examples, suggesting it was produced in the early Jiaqing period. For a Qianlong reign-marked vase of closely related form in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, see Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 75; and another illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, no. A.291, pl. 260. A closely related vase was sold in these rooms, 9th October 2007, lot 1532; another was sold in our London rooms, 7th December 1993, lot 276; and a third vase, from the Manno Art Museum, was sold at Christie’s London, 21st June 2001, lot 100.