Lot 3668. A teadust-glazed bottle vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795), 18.8 cm, 7 3/8  in. Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 HKD. Lot sold 350,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.  

elegantly potted with a globular body resting on a splayed foot, surmounted by a tall slender neck rising from a narrow fillet to an everted rim, covered overall with an opaque teadust glaze of olive-brown colour picked out with a fine yellow mist, the glaze applied also on the interior and the base, the footring left unglazed and dressed with a brown wash, the base impressed with a six-character seal mark beneath a brown glaze

Note: Another Qianlong reign-marked bottle of this form and glaze is illustrated in Tianjin Shi Yishu Bowuguan Cang Ci/Porcelains from the Tianjin Municipal Museum, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 162. See also an example included in the exhibition Ethereal Elegance. Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing. The Huaihaitang Collection, Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2007-8, cat. no. 64; and a vase from the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 935, sold in these rooms, 8th April 2013, lot 6.