A PALE TURQUOISE-GLAZED GARLIC-MOUTH BOTTLE VASE 19TH / 20TH CENTURY |

the rounded pear-shaped body supported on a slightly splayed foot, tapering to a slender neck and swelling to a garlic-head mouth and upright rim, the neck with two subtly raised filets, covered overall in a luminous pale turquoise glaze suffused with fine crackles, the interior and recessed base glazed white, the latter with an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue

Sotheby's London, 8th November 2006, lot 232.

Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 160.

The footring with minor scattered nicks and a hairline crack measuring apprx. 1 cm. A tiny frit at inner mouthrim. Overall with expected wear and minor firing imperfections including multiple glaze lines to the foot.
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