Lot 148. A Ru-type compressed pear-shaped long-necked vase, Qianlong seal mark and of the period (1736-1795); 16.5cm high. Estimate HK$600,000 - 800,000. Sold for HK$ 812,500 (€78,342). Photo Bonhams.

Covered overall in a pale greyish-blue finely crackled glaze, the recessed base with an Imperial underglaze-blue zhuanshu seal mark. 

Note: This compressed vase form is derived from a Song Dynasty prototype. A Southern Song Guanyao vase of similar form, but larger size, in the British Museum, London, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collection, Vol.5, 1981, col. pl.24. A Qianlong-marked vase, also of similar form but larger and covered with a tea-dust glaze, is illustrated in The Baur Collection, Geneva, 1972, Vol.III, no.A392; and a larger Guan-type vase of similar compressed form, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1799.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART. Hong Kong, Admiralty, 26 May 2014