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A FINE CELADON-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
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(Set Currency)
    HK$300,000 - HK$500,000
  • ($38,827 - $64,712)

Sale Information

Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A FINE CELADON-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Elegantly potted with the large spherical lower body separated from the smaller pear-shaped upper body by a narrow waist, covered overall in a deep sea-green glaze
13 in. (33 cm.) high, wood stand, Japanese wood box


清乾隆 豆青釉葫蘆瓶 六字篆書款

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Provenance

A Japanese private collection

Lot Notes

A similar example from the Nanjing Museum was included in The Exhibition of Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong Reigns, 1995, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 69; and another is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain: The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 106. A slightly smaller example (19.8 cm. high) is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 864. Compare also to an example with its original cover from the Jinguantang Collection sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 571 and again 28 October 2002, lot 723.

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