A fine peacock feather-glazed lantern vase, Qianlong incised six-character seal mark and of the period (1736-1795)

Lot 130. A fine peacock feather-glazed lantern vase, Qianlong incised six-character seal mark and of the period (1736-1795). Hauteur: 23,5 cm. (9 ¼ in.). Estimate EUR 20,000 - EUR 40,000. Price realised EUR 75,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2020.

Le vase est de forme lanterne, simplement moulé à l'épaulement de brides en forme de vases inversés, entièrement recouvert d'une glaçure turquoise vibrante ponctuée de petites taches dans des tons plus foncés violet-rouge, rappelant la plume de paon.

Provenance: With Orientique, Hong Kong, 30 June 1996.

Note: Several robin’s-egg-glazed vases of this shape are recorded: one in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1982, no. 184; in the Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum, illustrated in Keitokuchin Jiki, 1982, pl. 88; one included in An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie’s London, 1993, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 49; and another illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 220, fig. 3, which was sold at Christie’s Hotel Okura, Tokyo, Part II, 16 and 17 February 1980, lot 838. This vase may be compared with the peacock feather-glazed lantern vase sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2018, lot 3005.