Lot 795. A pale celadon-glazed stoneware bottle vase, China, Sui dynasty (AD 581-618); 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000. Price Realized $8,125. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

With rounded ovoid body and tall narrow neck rising to an everted rim, covered with a crackle-suffused glaze of olive tone ending in an irregular line to expose the buff ware, the base inscribed with a character, box.

Provenance: The Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, New York, before 1993.

Christie's. THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT HATFIELD ELLSWORTH PART IV - CHINESE WORKS OF ART: METALWORK, SCULPTURE AND EARLY CERAMICS, 20 March 2015, New York, Rockefeller Plaza.