The globular body rising from a splayed foot to a long slender neck surmounted by a garlic-shaped bulbous mouth, covered with a rich copper-red glaze of an attractive tone stopping neatly at the mouth and foot rim. 28cm (11in) high.

Provenance: Almira Goodsell Rockefeller (1844-1920), wife of William A. Rockefeller Jr. (1841-1922), and thence by descent, by repute
An American private collection.

NotesAlmira Geraldine Rockefeller (1844-1920), born Almira G. Goodsell, married in 1864 William Avery Rockefeller Jr. (1841-1922), a prominent member of the Rockefeller family. Rockefellers dominated the American industrial, political and financial businesses for over one hundred and forty years and is regarded as one of the most powerful families in US history, controlling one of the world's largest fortunes in the oil business during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Almira Rockefeller was very active with numerous philanthropies as well as in war relief work.

The crushed-raspberry tone of the copper-red glaze, as beautifully shown in the present vase, is in continuation of the copper-red glaze re-introduced during the Kangxi reign and inspired by the copper-red glazes used in the early Ming dynasty, during the reign of the Xuande emperor. The form follows on that used during the preceding Yongzheng reign, as can be seen in a lazurite blue glazed vase, Yongzheng seal mark and of the period, from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Shanghai, 1999, pl.194. 

See a similar copper-red glazed garlic-neck vase, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, illustrated by P.Y.K.Lam, ed., Ethereal Elegance: Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing: The Huaihaitang Collection, Hong Kong, 2007, no.7.

Compare with a similar copper-red glazed garlic-neck bottle vase, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, which was sold at Sotheby's London on 16 May 2012, lot 178.

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