Lot 3090. A blue-glazed handled vase, cong, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); 29.3 cm., 11 1/2 in. Estimate 250,000 — 350,000 HKD. Lot sold 500,000 HKD (47,071 EUR). Photo Sotheby's

of archaistic cong form, the tall rectangular body rising from a circular foot to a short cylindrical neck with a rounded rim, set on two parallel sides with a pair of elephant-head handles suspending thin fixed rings, covered overall save for the footrim with an unctuous deep cobalt-blue glaze thinning to a paler tone around the handles and along the edges, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark.

Provenance: An old Japanese collection since the 1960s.

Note: Another blue-glazed vase of this type was sold in our London rooms, 9th November 2011, lot 121.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 April 2014