A rare ivory-white-glazed baluster vase, Impressed Qianlong seal mark and of the period. Estimate £12,000 - 15,000 (€17,000 - 21,000). Unsold. Photo Bonhams.

Finely potted, the baluster body with an angular shoulder decorated with a band of key-fret, raised on a straight foot beneath lotus petals, the slender tapering neck intricately incised with a dense ground of scrolling foliage, flaring to a stepped rim, box. 16.5cm (6 1/2in) high (2)

Provenance: Professor E.T. Hall Collection, no.152 (label)
Christie's London, 7 June 2004, lot 39
The Inder Rieden Collection
Bonhams London, 10 November 2011, lot 73
An important Asian private collection 

Notes: Compare a related incised white glazed vase of similar form, Yongzheng seal mark and of the period (19.3cm high), in the Sir Percival David Collection (PDF.445), now in the British Museum, exhibited and illustrated by the Oriental Ceramic Society, Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971. Vases of this form were also produced in blue and white; see for example a Qianlong seal mark and of the period vase from the Nanjing Museum, illustrated inTreasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Nanjing, 2003, p.279.

A related larger example, of slightly different form and decorative patterns, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, Colours of Perfection: Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 31 October 2000, lot 802. See also a closely related vase but of larger size, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, sold at Christie's Hong Kong on 29 May 2013, lot 2277.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART, 14 May 2015 10:00 BST - LONDON, NEW BOND STREET