Lot 71.  A Flambé-Glazed 'Pomegranate' Vase, Qianlong seal mark and of the period (1736-1795); 19cm (7 1/2in) high. Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000. Sold for £ 3,812 (€ 4,450). Photo: Bonhams. 

Of hexafoil section, the lobed body rising from a spreading foot to a waisted neck and everted rim, covered overall with a rich purplish-red glaze streaked with lavender blue, the interior highlighted with milky cascades of sky-blue with white striations, draining to a mushroom tone at the rim, the base with the incised mark under a mottled toffee-brown glaze. 

Provenance: a European private collection, and thence by descent.

Note: See a very similar flambé-glazed 'pomegranate' vase, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.4 (II), pp.364-365, no.1811. aother similar flambé-glazed 'pomegranate' vase, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, is in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, and illustrated in Gugong Qing ci tulu, Taipei, 1981, pl.75. Compare with a very similar flambé-glazed 'pomegranate' vase, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, which was sold at Sotheby's London, 5 November 2014, lot 162.

Bonhams. Fine Chinese Art, London, 7 Nov 2019