Lot 1784. A flambé-glazed vase, Qianlong incised seal mark and of the period (1736-1795); 8½ in. (21 cm.) high. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000. Price realised USD 30,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011. 

Of urn form and raised on a spreading foot, with a bow-string border below the shoulder and a pair of trailing scroll handles flanking the neck, the exterior covered with a glaze of crushed strawberry-red color streaked in purple and milky blue and thinning to mushroom on the handles, with a crackled pale greyish-blue glaze on the interior and a tortoiseshell glaze on the base, mouth rim with a copper mount, wood stand.

Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 7 April 1981, lot 260.
Greenwald Collection no. 50.

Literature: Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, no. 50.