Lot 8078. A Ru-type garlic-mouth vase, 18th century. Estimate US$ 8,000 - 12,000 (€7,300 - 11,000). Photo: Bonhams.

With a bulbous body with a band of molded stiff lappets above the low spreading foot, the neck with a single rib flaring to the garlic-mouth finely incised to suggest lotus petals, all covered in a pale grayish-blue glaze. 16 1/4in (41.2cm) high 

Provenance: The Joanna Lau Sullivan Trust

Note: Compare an aubergine-glazed vase of related form but smaller, from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Shenzhen, 1999, no. 166. 

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