A fine celadon-glazed zhadou, Yongzheng seal mark and period; 21.5cm., 8 1/2 in. Estimation 120,000 - 180,000 GBP. Photo Sotheby's.

the lobed tapering body rising from a short spreading foot to a widely flaring trumpet neck, covered overall in a rich bluish-green glaze, the base with the seal mark in under-glaze blue

Provenance: Collection of E.T. Chow.

A closely related example is illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 284, where he draws attention to the ‘beautiful pale tint that has no real Song antecedent’. See also a zhadou of this type from the Ingram collection, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, published in Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. LXVI, fig. 2; one included in the exhibition Chinese Celadons and Other Related Wares, National Museum, Singapore, 1955, cat. no. 225, together with a slightly taller Qianlong example; another from the J.M. Hu Family collection, sold in our New York rooms, 23rd September 1995; one from the T.Y. Chao collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1987, lot 285; and another sold in these rooms, 13thMay 2009, lot 220.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. London | 06 nov. 2013