the ovoid body supported on a flared foot rising to a waisted neck, moulded with two horizontal ribs around the high shoulder and the neck, set on opposite side with loop handles suspending a fixed buckle-shaped ring, the exterior covered with a rich glaze of streaked crushed-raspberry and lavender draining away from the mouthrim and the handles to reveal a creamy-mushroom tone, the interior displaying streaks of mushroom-brown against a pale blue ground, the foot unglazed exposing the biscuit, the base glazed golden-brown with patches of green and incised with a four-character seal mark.

Provenance: An old Japanese collection. 

Notes: While at first glance this vase appears to be of a familiar type with mask-head handles instead of loop handles, upon closer inspection it is unusual for the broader proportions and ringed loop handles. Two closely related Yongzheng examples are known; one covered in a dark iron-rust glaze illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 255; and the other with a Ge-type glaze published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. 1, Taipei, 1980, pl. 132.