Lot 3706. A fine teadust-glazed bottle vase, Incised seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795). Estimate 600,000 — 800,000  HKD. Lot sold 750,000  HKD (89,144 EUR). © Sotheby's

sturdily potted with a compressed globular body rising from a splayed foot to a tall tubular neck, applied overall with an olive-coloured glaze flecked with a fine golden-yellow mist, thinning to brown at the mouthrim, the footring dressed in a dark wash, the recessed base incised with a six-character seal mark beneath a brown glaze; 32.3 cm., 12 5/8  in.

Note: A closely related example in the Meiyintang collection is published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2,  pl. 936. See also a similar vase from the T.Y. Chao collection sold in these rooms, 19th May 1987, lot 294, and another example sold more recently, 8th October 2013, lot 3067. See also a slightly larger vase of this type in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, included in Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, pl. 25.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Works of Art, Hong Kong, 07 april 2015