QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The bell-shaped body rising to a tall tubular neck with a slightly lipped rim, painted on both sides with a stylised kui phoenix design. The base is inscribed with a six-character Qianlong reign mark in underglaze blue.

A Kangxi vase of this design in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, p.108, no.71. Compare also with a blue and white Kangxi example, housed in the Palace Museum and recorded in Gugongbowuyuan cang qingdai yuyao ciqi, Beijing, 2005, vol.1, pl.47.