Olive-shaped vase with incised floral design, Longquan ware, Late Ming Dynasty, 16th century. Height 35.1 cm, diameter 9.1 cm, base diameter 9.6 cm. © National Palace Museum, Taipei.

Lot 1362. An unusual copper-red-streaked olive-shaped vase, ganlanping, 18th century. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016. The vase is covered inside and out and on the base with a very pale celadon-tinged white glaze decorated...

A blue and white olive-shaped vase, Yongzheng period (1723-1735). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014. The elagantly shaped vase rises to a slender flaring mouth and is decorated around the body with a deer standing below a pine tree with a crane perched...

Lot 2. A Copper-Red Olive-Shaped Vase, Ganlanping, Mark and Period of Kangxi (1662-1722); 17.9 cm, 7 in. Estimate 500,000 - 700,000 HKD. Lot sold 680,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's 2012. the bulging body rising to an almost cylindrical neck from a slightly...