Grand vase en porcelaine émaillée céladon, zun, marque à six caractères en cachet et possiblement de l’époque Qianlong
Grand vase en porcelaine émaillée céladon, zun, Chine, dynastie Qing, marque à six caractères en cachet en bleu sous couverte et possiblement de l’époque Qianlong (1736-1795). Estimate €20,000 – €40,000 ($22,478 - $44,956). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015
The vase is moulded in the form of a basket with swelling sides rising to a slender neck with galleried mouth rim. The lobed body is decorated to the shoulders and to the mouth rim with parallel bands of a rope-twist design and the vase is covered all over with a celadon glaze pooling in the recesses. 14 ½ in. (37 cm.) high
Provenance: The base has a paper label reading 30539.
Notes: A celadon-glazed vase from the Yongzheng period with a comparable form and related design is illustrated inMonochrome Porcelain, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 133
A LARGE CELADON-GLAZED 'BASKET-FORM' VASE, ZUN, CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Christie's. ART D'ASIE, 9 June 2015, Paris