A RARE CHINESE CLAIR DE LUNE GLAZED VASE

A RARE CHINESE CLAIR DE LUNE GLAZED VASE
QIANLONG 1736-95

The body surmounted by angled shoulders and a tall neck, the shoulders decorated with twelve petal motifs, the body divided into twelve panels with vertical lines, covered overall in a pale blue glaze, a paper label for Spink & Son Ltd, 41 cm.

Provenance: formerly The Edward T Chow Collection: Ming and Qing Porcelain, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Hong Kong, 19th May 1981, lot 520, and later the Mark and Elizabeth Harding Collection, South Africa, purchased from Spink & Son Ltd.

A much smaller related vase of similar form in the Fondation Baur, Geneva, is illustrated by John Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. 3, pl. A334; and another from the collection of the Hon. Mountstuart William Elphinstone, now part of the Sir Percival David collection in the British Museum, London, is published on the museum’s website, accession no. PDF,B.569.

清乾隆 天藍釉葵瓣紋長頸瓶
來源：仇焱之舊藏，1981年5月19日曾於香港蘇富比上拍，拍品編號520; 其後為南非Mark及Elizabeth Harding 收藏，購於倫敦Spink & Son (附標籤)。