A tea-dust-glazed bottle vase, Qianlong six-character incised seal mark and of the period (1736-1795). Estimate $15,000 – $25,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The vase has a compressed globular body raised on a spreading foot and is covered overall with a finely speckled, opaque glaze of dark tea-dust color which also covers the base surrounding the tortoiseshell-glazed mark. 13 in. (33 cm.) high

Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 17 September 2003, lot 108.
Michael L. Vermeer, Atlanta, Georgia.

Notes: A similar tea-dust-glazed vase of this shape and size in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr,Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 48, no. 25; and another is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pp. 256-57, no. 936.

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 17 - 18 September 2015, New York, Rockefeller Plaza