Lot 3234. A fine and rare small ge bottle vase, Ming dynasty (1368-1644); 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 400,000 - HKD 500,000. Price realised HKD 1,180,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014 

The vase is well potted with a compressed body raised on a short cylindrical foot ring and tapers to a long neck terminating in a small slightly lipped mouth, Japanese wood box.  

Property of the Yiqingge Collection

Note: Compare with two earlier examples of this shape from the Palace Museum, Beijing: the first of very similar size (14.2 cm. high), illustrated in Song Dynasty (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 35; and the second, slightly smaller in size (13.8 cm. high), ibid, no. 36. Another closely related example, similar in proportions to the second Palace Museum example, was included in the exhibition catalogue Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, New York, 1996, pl. 123.