A RARE INCISED 'PEACH' VASE, YUHUCHUNPING QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD

the finely potted body of pear shape, rising from a short spreading foot to a tall waisted neck with wide flaring mouth, finely incised around the exterior with a peach tree, the gnarled branches heavily laden with ripe fruit and curling up around the body to the rim, the design subtly picked out and washed in a celadon glaze  

The vase is in very good condition with the exception of some minor scattered burst glaze bubbles around the body and some very minor glaze scratches.
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It is rare to find Qing vases decorated in this unusual technique whereby the design is incised, then washed over with a celadon-green slip which pools into the carving and then covered with an opaque white-glaze. A white-glazed meiping, possibly decorated in this method, from the Mottahedeh Collection, was sold in our New York rooms, 19th October 2000, lot 127.

In its form and decoration the present vase is reminiscent of Yongzheng mark and period white-glazed anhua decorated vases. For example see a Yongzheng vase, from the collection of the British Rail Pension Fund, sold in our Hong Kong rooms 28th November, 1978, lot 133, and again, 29th October 2001, lot 571.