Lot 3024. A white-glazed bottle vase and a bronze bottle vase with cover, Sui Dynasty (589-618). Ceramic: 10 11/16 in. (27.2 cm.) high; bronze: 10 ½ in. (26.7 cm.) overall height, box. Estimate HKD 400,000 - HKD 600,000. Price realised HKD 500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.

The ceramic vase is potted of ovoid form with a tall, slender neck and trumpet mouth, covered on the exterior with a finely crackled glaze of pale greenish-white tone, ending in an irregular line above the foot exposing the white body with dark inclusions. The bronze bottle is of similar shape, fitted with a cover surmounted by a bud finial with integral forceps on the underside.

Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong, 7 August 1989.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 30 November 2020