Lot 614. An unusual pale blue-glazed carved pear-shaped vase, 18th century; 14 ¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 22,500 © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

The bulbous body and waisted neck are well carved in low relief with bands of highly stylized archaistic decoration, all between a band of key fret below the mouth rim and a band of triangular overlapping blade tips encircling the splayed foot. The vase is covered inside and out with a glaze of pale sky-blue color that thins on the decoration.

Provenance: Christie's New York, 22 March 2007, lot 387.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.

Note: Compare the Qianlong-marked vase of similar shape and with similar decoration, but of larger size and covered with a celadon glaze, included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Monochromes: The Zande Lou Collection, Shanghai Museum, Beijing Museum, and the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005, pp. 122-23, no. 44.

Christie's. The Studio of the Clear Garden: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 22 March 2018, New York