清嘉慶 窰變釉石榴瓶 《大清嘉慶年製》款

the lobed body rising from a short spreading foot to a waisted neck with everted rim, vibrantly decorated in a purplish-red glaze vertically streaked with turquoise blue in the indentations of the lobes, thinning to a mushroom tone at the rim, the base incised with a six-character seal mark 

The vase is in very good condition with the exception of characteristic glaze crazing and pitting.
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The quality of the current vase compares favourably with earlier Qianlong examples, suggesting it was produced in the early Jiaqing period. For a Qianlong reign-marked vase of closely related form in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, see Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 75; and another illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, no. A.291, pl. 260. A closely related vase was sold in these rooms, 9th October 2007, lot 1532; another was sold in our London rooms, 7th December 1993, lot 276; and a third vase, from the Manno Art Museum, Osaka, was sold at Christie’s London, 21st June 2001, lot 100.