A Very Rare Green-Glazed Black-Ground Vase 'Qieping', China, Qianlong seal mark and period

H. 28,9 cm - Few very small chips or frits to rim restored, fine firing crack to stand filled - Estimate 40 000 €

Provenance: Christie's Hongkong, 'Masterworks of Chinese Art', 5./6.11.1997, Lot 975

Note: This palette of green and black is very rare and appears to only have been used during Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns. These wares were invariably decorated with designs that are very well rendered .

A Yongzheng marked saucer dish and a globular bottle vase, in the Baur collection, Geneva, illustrated by Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. IV, no. A568-69. A Yongzheng-marked baluster vase decorated with longyan, narcissus and lingzhi was sold Christie's Hongkong, 26.9.1989, Lot 630 - Christie's Hongkong, 28.11.2006, Lot 1530

Nagel Aunctions. Asian Arts. 10 November 2008. www.auction.de