A fine large blackish-blue-glazed globular bottle vase, Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795). Photo Christie's Image 2003

The very well-potted body of spherical shape with a tall, broad cylindrical neck, the exterior covered with an unusual blackish-blue glaze thinning slightly at the rim and stopping neatly above the foot - 20 1/8in. (51cm.) high. Lot 352. Estimate $50,000 - $70,000. Price Realized $47,800 

Provenance: Christie's, New York, September 1997, lot 377.

Notes: Similar vases have been sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 1 October 1991, lot 803; 29 September 1992, lot 552; and 31 October 1994, lot 642. Another was sold in these rooms, 3 December 1992, lot 310.

Compare, also, the large blue bottle vase in the Hong Kong Museum of Art included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong, 1984-85, no. 85. 

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 September 2003, New York, Rockefeller Plaza