Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 30 May 2006
A fine teadust-glazed pear-shaped vase, Qianlong incised six-character sealmark and of the period (1736-1795)
Lot 1354. A fine teadust-glazed pear-shaped vase, Qianlong incised six-character sealmark and of the period (1736-1795); 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 400,000 - HKD 600,000. Price realised HKD 576,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2006.
Strongly potted, the compressed globular body rises to a broad cylindrical neck, all raised on a splayed foot and covered with an olive-green 'eel-skin' glaze thinning to brown at the mouth rim, box.
Provenance: Toguri Museum of Art.
Literature: Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection, no. 166.
Note: Previously sold at Sotheby's Olympia, 10 June 2004, lot 615.
Similar vases of this shape and size are known, including the pair to this vase, also from the Toguri Museum of Art, sold at Sotheby's London, 9 June 2004, lot 11; one from the T. Y. Chao Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 20 March 1997, lot 128; one illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, no. 936; one from the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, fig. 25; and a smaller example sold in these Rooms, 26 April 2004, lot 1094.
