Lot 39. A rare soft-paste vase, impressed Qianlong six-character seal mark and of the period (1736-1795); 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high. Estimate GBP 3,500 - GBP 4,500. Price realised GBP 7,170. © Christie's Images Ltd 2004

Thinly potted with rounded sides rising from a high splayed foot to sharp shoulders and a slender neck flaring to an upturned mouth, crisply moulded around the neck with a dense scrolling foliage, above a band of key pattern around the neck and lotus petals around the base, covered overall in a widely-crackled transparent glaze stopping neatly above the foot rim. 

Provenance: E. T. Hall Collection, no. 152. 

Note: Compare a larger example, with slightly different shape and design, from the Robert Chang Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 October 2000, lot 802.

Lot 40. An incised white-glazed and underglaze-blue meiping, underglaze-blue Yongzheng four-character mark and of the period (1723-1735); 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high. Estimate GBP 3,000 - GBP 4,000. Price realised GBP 3,824. © Christie's Images Ltd 2004

The shoulders incised and highlighted in underglaze blue with a striding dragon chasing a flaming pearl, covered in a semi-translucent white glaze stopping neatly around the recessed base. 

Provenance: E. T. Hall Collection, no. 226. 

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