A RARE TEADUST-GLAZED OVOID VASE QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD |

of tapering ovoid form, the rounded sides broadening to a sloping shoulder before sweeping to a waisted neck and flaring rim, covered overall in a finely speckled olive-colored glaze, the footring dressed in dark brown, the base carved with a six-character seal mark coated in a burnt-toffee-toned glaze

Collection of Count Arvid Rutger Fredriksson Posse (1820-1901), Sweden.

The rim has restoration to an approx. 1-cm flake chip and one smaller patch of flaked glaze; otherwise the vase is in good condition.
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A closely related vase sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27th May 2008, lot 1802; and an example from the collection of Ella Jaffe sold at Parke-Bernet New York, 20th-21st November 1973, lot 542. Count Posse was the Prime Minister of Sweden from 1880-1883. This vase was reputedly gifted to his granddaughter, Amelie Posse-Brázdová (1884-1957), as a christening gift.