A CELADON-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD

the lower bulb of compressed globular form with pronounced shoulders and surmounted by a pear-shaped upper bulb above the narrow constricted waist, covered overall with a thick bubble-suffused glaze of pale sea-green color drained to white at the rim, the countersunk base encircled by an unglazed footring burnt orange along the perimeter, six-character seal mark in underglaze blue

Collection of Victor Rienaecker (b. 1887).
Sidney L. Moss, London, 25th May 1960.

There is a drilled hole in the center of the base through the mark from when the vase was lamped There is a small vertical area of the lower bulb slightly over-fired resulting in a subtly darker tone and bubbled glaze.
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A closely related vase with cover in Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, was included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 69 and is illustrated in Zhongguo qingdai guanyao ciqi, Shanghai, 2003, p. 341; and another is published in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. 1, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 160. See also a vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Suzanne G. Valenstein, The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992, pl. 98; and a smaller example published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, no. 864.

Compare also a vase formerly in the collection of Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th April 2011, lot 3020; and a slightly larger example sold in our London rooms, 12th July 2006, lot 142; and another sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29th April 1997, lot 581.