Lot 22. Property from an important European collection. A small clair-de-lune garlic-mouth vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); 11.8 cm. Lot Sold 482,600 HKD (Estimate 20,000 - 30,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2024

with a compressed globular body rising from three short conical feet to a tall elegant waisted neck with garlic mouth, covered overall in a pale blue glaze, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue.

Provenance: Acquired from Edward T. Chow (1910-80) in the late 1960s.

Literature: Possibly one of the vases illustrated in Edward T. Chow and Frederick Seguier Drake, ‘Kuan-Yao and Min-Yao: A Study on Imperial Porcelain and People's Porcelain from K'ang-hsi to the End of the Ch'ing Dynasty’, Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol. 13, 1959, pl. XXV, 1, 2.

Sotheby's. An Important European Collection of Chinese Ceramics - Acquired from Edward T. Chow, Hong Kong, 9 April 2024.