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A FINE AND RARE SMALL RU-TYPE VASE
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Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • HK$475,000
  • ($61,568)
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    HK$250,000 - HK$300,000
  • ($32,404 - $38,885)

Sale Information

Sale 2711
the imperial saleimportant chinese ceramics and works of art
27 May 2009
Convention Hall Buy Catalog




Lot Description

A FINE AND RARE SMALL RU-TYPE VASE
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The compressed globular body potted with straight sides and a raised rib below the angled shoulder, surmounted by a tall neck flanked by a pair of zoomorphic handles, rising to a cup-shaped mouth, covered overall with a pale blue glaze of even tone
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high, box


清雍正 仿汝窰釉盤口雙戟耳瓶 四字篆書款

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Pre-Lot Text

THE PROPERTY OF A CHINESE AMERICAN FAMILY

Lot Notes

Previously sold at Sotheby's London, 12 June 2003, lot 180.

Compare the present lot with three other vases of identical design sold at auction. The first sold at Sotheby's New York, 1 June 1988, lot 158; the second at Sotheby's London, 8 June 1993, lot 109; and a third at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 697.

See a larger Qianlong-marked vase (27 cm. high) of this form in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayres, The Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, p. 171, no. 275; and a larger Yongzheng example covered in flambe glaze in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Monochrome Porcelains of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1970, no. 20.

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