Lot 232. An apple-green-glazed vase, gu, 18th century; 9 1/8 in. (22.8 cm.) high. Estimate GBP 5,000 - GBP 7,000. Price realised GBP 7,768. © Christie's Images Ltd 2004

With a globular mid-section rising to a trumpet neck from a spreading base, covered overall in a finely crackled deep apple-green glaze stopping neatly around the foot. 

Provenance: K. W. Woollcombe-Boyce Collection, no. 133
Sydney Moss
E. T. Hall Collection, no. 359.

Note: Compare the small green Langyao jarlet illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain (Beijing), Hong Kong, 1999, p. 20, no. 17.

Christie's. Chinese Monochrome Porcelain from the Collection of the late E. T. Hall, London, 7 June 2004