Pear-shaped Vase

Lot 457. A rare copper-red glazed pear-shaped vase, seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); 22.5 cm, 8 7/8  in. Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 HKD. Lot sold 562,500 HKD. © Sotheby's. superbly potted with a pear-shaped body rising from a splayed foot to a horizontal fillet around the shoulder, sweeping up to a tall cylindrical neck flaring towards the rim, applied to the exterior with a translucent copper-red glaze of rich crushed strawberry tone suffused with a network of fine... [Lire la suite]

Lot 2807. A very rare robin’s egg-glazed pear-shaped vase, Yongzheng incised six-character seal mark and of the period (1723-1735); 10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 6,500,000 - HKD 7,500,000. Price realised HKD 7,925,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019 The vase has a compressed globular pear-shaped body rising from a spreading foot to an elegantly waisted neck and a wide flaring mouth. The widest part of the body is moulded with a double bow-string, all covered with a mottled glaze... [Lire la suite]

Lot 31. A large teadust-glazed pear-shaped vase, Impressed Qianlong seal mark and of the period (1736-1795);33cm (13in) high. Estimate £ 40,000 - 60,000 (€ 46,000 - 69,000). © Bonhams 2001-2019 The compressed pear-shaped body rising from a spreading foot and tapering to a tall cylindrical neck, all covered with an evenly-mottled dark yellow-green glaze stopping at the foot, the base with the impressed seal mark. Provenance: Sotheby's London, 12 and 13 July 2006, lot 161The Inder Rieden CollectionBonhams... [Lire la suite]

Lot 613. A rare 'Longquan' celadon-glazed pear-shaped vase, Southern Song-Yuan dynasty (1127-1368). Height 10 3/8  in., 26.3 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 USD. Unsold. Courtesy Sotheby's. the petal-lobed sides rising elegantly to the flaring trumpet neck with bracket-lobed mouth simulating a morning glory blossom, flanked by a pair of hook handles suspending fixed rings, all under a sea-green glaze thinning at the ribs.  Note: A Longquan celadon vase attributed to the Song /... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1713. A very large doucai pear-shaped vase, 18th-19th century; 25 3/8 in. (64.5 cm.) high. Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000. Price realised USD 80,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011 Painted on two sides of the bulbous body with a dragon leaping amidst clouds in pursuit of a flaming pearl, one in iron red, the other green, above a band of frothing waves which break in explosions of spray against rocks, the neck with a band of phoenixes in flight amidst ruyi-shaped clouds and a band of... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1661. A blue and  white pear-shaped vase, Transitional period, circa 1645-1655; 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) high. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price Realized USD 10,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011.  Raised on a spreading pedestal foot, one side painted with an unusual scene of an immortal playing the arrow game standing beside an attendant holding arrows on a cloud to one side of a pavilion set amidst rocks and crashing waves, with a vase filled with arrows sitting on the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 126. A copper-red-glazed pear-shaped vase, Yuhuchunping, Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795). H. : 30 cm (11 3/4 in.). Estimate: €15,000.00 - €20,000.00. Invendu. © Artcurial La panse piriforme reposant sur un petit pied, le col évasé, recouvert d'une belle glaçure rouge sombre, l'intérieur à glaçure blanche, la base réservée portant la marque en cachet de l'Empereur Qianlong en bleu sous couverte ; le col réduit. Note: Pour un vase similaire, voir le Lot 1144 de... [Lire la suite]

Lot 834. A Cizhou white glazed pear-shaped vase, yuhuchunping, Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234); 7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised USD 10,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018. The vase has a tapering ovoid body rising to the slender, waisted neck and flared mouth rim, and is covered in a white slip under a clear glaze that falls short of the thick, slightly flared foot. The lower body and base bear illegible inscriptions in black ink, Japanese wood box. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1308. A Longquan celadon pear-shaped vase, Northern Song dynasty, early 11th century; 8 3/8 in. (21.5 cm.) high. Estimate USD 5,000 - USD 8,000. Price realised USD 11,875. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018. The heavily potted body rises from the slightly spreading foot to the lipped rim, and is covered with a crackle-suffused glaze of sea-green color shading to brownish green. Provenance: J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 23 September 2004. Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 824. A Cizhou sgraffiato pear-shaped vase, yuhuchunping, Jin-Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century; 11 ½ in. (29.2 cm.) high. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 18,000. Price realised USD 87,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018. The body is carved through the brown glaze to the buff body with a broad band of leaf scroll below a narrower band of leaf scroll on the shoulder, all within line borders below the brown-glazed, waisted neck and flared mouth, Japanese wood box.  Japanese wood box. Provenance: Kochukyo, Tokyo. ... [Lire la suite]