Lot 1. A Fine Ge-Type Bottle Vase. Seal Mark and Period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 16.8 cm., 6 5/8 in. Estimate 1,000,000-1,500,000 HKD.  Lot Sold: 4,940,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's

of mallet form, the body tapering slightly towards the Iow footring below a tau columnar neck set with a wide everted mouthrim, covered overail in an even, thick, greenish-grey glaze with large-scale dark-stained crackie, the footring Ieft unglazed revealing the dark brown dressing, the recessed base inscribed with an undergiaze-blue six-character reign mark

Provenance: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York (label).

Literature: Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1793.

Note: A pair cf Yongzheng vases cf this rare shape with Ru-type glazes, from the Huaihaitang collection, was included in the exhibition Ethereal Elegance. Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing. The Huaihaitang Collection, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2007-8, catalogue pI. 24; and for a single Yongzheng vase cf this form with a guan-type glaze see Sothebys Hong Kong, 30th April 1996, lot 394.

Sotheby's. The Meiyintang Collection, Part II - An Important Selection of Chinese Porcelains. Hong Kong 5 october 2011