Lot 644. A pale turquoise-glazed garlic-mouth bottle vase, 19th-20th century. Height 7 3/4  in., 19.6 cm Estimate 4,000 — 6,000 USD. Lot sold 5,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

the rounded pear-shaped body supported on a slightly splayed foot, tapering to a slender neck and swelling to a garlic-head mouth and upright rim, the neck with two subtly raised filets, covered overall in a luminous pale turquoise glaze suffused with fine crackles, the interior and recessed base glazed white, the latter with an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue.

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 8th November 2006, lot 232.

Literature: Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl 160.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, 11 september 2019