Lot 609. A Rare Teadust-Glazed Facetted Vase, hu, Qianlong incised six-character seal mark and of the period (1736-1795); 13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) high. Estimate USD 120,000 - USD 180,000. © Christie’s Images Limited 2018.

The vase of hexagonal shape has a pair of rounded tubular handles flanking the neck and is applied overall with a finely textured matte glaze of even, dark olive-green color that also covers the base surrounding the mark which is covered with a brownish glaze, and the foot is covered with a dark brown wash. 

Provenance: Christie's London, 22 July 2006, lot 141.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.

Note: A similar vase was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, 1988, no. 89, and on the front cover. Another from the W. W. Winkworth Collection was sold at Sotheby's London, 12 December 1972, lot 130. A larger teadust-glazed vase of this shape is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 965. See, also, a very similar example sold at Christie's Hong Kong, One Man's Vision: Important Chinese Art from the Manno Art Museum, 28 October 2002, lot 560.

John Ayers; Margaret Medley; Nigel Wood; Ashmolean Museum.; Oriental Ceramic Society. Iron in the fire : the Chinese potter's exploration of iron oxide glazes : an exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 10 May-19 June, 1988.

Christie's. The Studio of the Clear Garden: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 22 March 2018, New York