A RARE CHINESE BROWN GLAZED ALTAR VASE

SIX CHARACTER YONGZHENG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1723-35

The ovoid body with a cylindrical neck, moulded to each side with a peach-shaped panel, all raised on a domed elliptical foot, with two handles formed as birds to the shoulder, decorated with a rich brown glaze, 22.3cm.

Cf. J Ayers, The Baur Collection, Chinese Ceramics IV, no.472, where an example in underglaze blue and yellow is illustrated; see also the Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum no.C.487-1910 for a tea-dust glazed vessel of this form.