An exquisite flambe-glazed hexalobed vase incised seal mark and period of Qianlong

stoutly potted resting on a slightly flared foot, the globular body rising to a short waisted neck with out-turned rim, applied overall with an attractive rich purplish-red glaze streaked with sky-blue to enhance the lobed form, the base applied with a coffee-coloured glaze

Collection of J.M. Hu.
Sotheby's New York, 4th June, 1985, lot 46.
Hall Family Collection (inventory no.533). 
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2nd May 2000, lot 564.

A Qianlong vase of this design in Taiwan is included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum (vol.2), Tokyo, 1981, pl.75; another in the Capital Museum, Beijing, is published in Xiong Liao, Beauty of Ceramics. Gems of the Official Kilns, Taipei, 1993, pl.148; a third in John Ayers, The Baur Collection Geneva. Chinese Ceramcis, vol.3, Geneva, 1972, no. A 291.