Lot 108. A large flambe-glazed and gilt bottle vase, Qing dynasty, 18th century. Height 17 1/4  in., 43.8 cm. Estimate 3,000 — 5,000 USD. Lot sold 43,750 USD. Photo: Sotheby's

the globular body rising from a tapering foot to a tall slender cylindrical neck, covered overall in a lustrous crimson-red glaze thinning to an ivory tone at the mouth and dappled with milky lavender blue, the body with traces of a gilt-painted landscape, the base with a crackled-ivory glaze, wood stand (2). 

Property from the collection of John F. Lewis, Jr.

Provenance: Acquired in the 1940s or 50s and thence by descent

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 15 sept. 2015