A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD |

stoutly potted with the compressed globular body rising from a splayed foot to a tall cylindrical neck, applied overall with a mottled olive-green glaze flecked with a fine golden-yellow mist, the foot ring dressed in a dark wash, the base incised with a six-character seal mark reserved in a square beneath a brown glaze, Japanese wood box (3)

The vase is in good condition.
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A pair of closely related vases preserved in the Seikado Bunko Museum, Tokyo, was included in the Museum's exhibition, Seikado zo Shincho toji. Keitokuchin kanyo no bi [Qing porcelain collected in the Seikado. Beauty of the Jingdezhen imperial kilns], Tokyo, 2006, cat. no. 109; one from the Meiyintang Collection, is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 936; and another, but with a pale rim, from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is published in Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics. Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, pl. 25. Further Qianlong marked teadust-glazed vases of this type include one from the collection of Gerson and Judith Leiber, recently sold in these rooms, 20th March 2018, lot 437; one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 3rd October 2017, lot 3665; another in these rooms, 13th September 2017, lot 24; and one sold at Christie's New York, 17th March 2017, lot 1245. Compare also a similar vase from the T.Y. Chao Collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1987, lot 294, and again at Christie's New York, 20th March 1997, lot 128.