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10 septembre 2018

A small 'Ru'-type bottle vase, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735)

A small 'Ru'-type bottle vase, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735)

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Lot 131. A small 'Ru'-type bottle vase, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735). Height 5 3/8  in., 13.7 cmEstimate 50,000 — 70,000Unsold. © Sotheby's.

the gently compressed globular body encircled at the shoulder by a raised ring, surmounted by a tall slender neck with flaring rim, flanked on each side by zoomorphic handles, covered overall in an even, lustrous pale-blue glaze, the base with a four-character seal mark in underglaze blue.

Note: Inspired by renown Song dynasty forms and glazes, identical Yongzheng mark and period vases of this rare form include one sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27th May 2009, lot 1892, which was previously sold six years earlier in our Hong Kong rooms, 12th June 2003, lot 180; another in our London rooms, 8th June 1993, lot 109; and one in these rooms, 1st June 1988, lot 158. A similar vase but celadon-glazed sold at Christie's Paris, 10th December 2014, lot 283. See also two related vases in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, pl. A361 for a Yongzheng vase of similar size but lacking handles and pl. A341 for a Qianlong vase with handles.
Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 12 sept. 2018, 10:30 AM
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