A TEA-DUST GLAZED BOTTLE VASE INCISED SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

of elegant pear shape, well potted with a compressed globular body rising from a short splayed foot to a slender tubular neck, covered overall in a yellow-speckled olive-green glaze, the base incised with a six-character seal mark dressed beneath a brown slip

A Japanese collection.
Christie's Hong Kong, 29th May 2007, lot 1531.

In overall good condition. The brown-dressed footring has a fine firing crack which extends up and joins a faint glaze crackle on the exterior of the foot. The mouthrim also has a shallow glaze flake of approx. 0.3 cm.
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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, 7th April 2015, lot 3706. 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.