the lobed body rising from a short spreading foot to a waisted neck with everted rim, vibrantly decorated in a purplish-red glaze vertically streaked with turquoise blue in the indentations of the lobes, thinning to a mushroom tone at the rim, the base incised with a six-character seal mark; 19 cm, 7 1/2  in.

Note: The quality of the current vase compares favourably with earlier Qianlong examples, suggesting it was produced in the early Jiaqing period. For a Qianlong reign-marked vase of closely related form in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, see Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 75; and another illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, no. A.291, pl. 260. A closely related vase was sold in these rooms, 9th October 2007, lot 1532; another was sold in our London rooms, 7th December 1993, lot 276; and a third vase, from the Manno Art Museum, Osaka, was sold at Christie’s London, 21st June 2001, lot 100.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art Londres, 11 mai 2016, 10:00 AM