Lot 607. A rare flambé-glazed vase, Yongzheng incised four-character seal mark and of the period (1736-1795); 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm.) high. Estimate USD 50,000 - USD 70,000. © Christie’s Images Limited 2018.

The angular hu-shaped body is relief-decorated with a row of ruyi motifs on the tapering lower body and on the shoulder forming a cloud collar between double bow-string borders below the neck which is flanked by a pair of angular scroll handles. The exterior is covered with a glaze of rich, mottled, crushed strawberry-red color streaked in milky lavender-blue that thins to mushroom on the handles, the raised decoration and on the edge of the cupped mouth rim which is a mottled purplish-blue on top above a crackle-suffused, pale greyish-blue-toned, clear glaze streaked in dark mauve on the interior. The base is covered with a mottled yellowish-brown and celadon glaze wash that also covers the reign mark.

Provenance: Christie's London, 7 November 2006, lot 197.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.

Note: A very similar Yongzheng-marked vase is illustrated in Ethereal Elegance: Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing - The Huaihaitang Collection, Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007, pp. 220-21, no. 67.

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