Lot 3058. A large blue-glazed bottle vase, seal mark and period of Qianlong (1735-1795); 45.7 cm., 18 in. Estimate 600,000 — 800,000 HKD. Lot sold 875,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's 2013.

of slender ovoid form, with a pear-shaped body rising from a slightly splayed foot to tall tubular neck, covered overall with a deep blue glaze of vibrant purplish colour finely suffused on the surface with a light 'orange peel' effect, the glaze slightly draining to white at the mouth rim and stopping neatly above the footring, the interior and the base left white, the base further inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark. 

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 29th March 1977, lot 284.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8th November 1982, lot 270.