A FINE AND RARE SMALL RU-TYPE VASE

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A FINE AND RARE SMALL RU-TYPE VASE
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The compressed globular body is potted with straight sides and a raised rib below the angled shoulder, surmounted by a tall neck flanked by a pair of zoomorphic handles, and rising to a cup-shaped mouth, covered overall with a pale blue glaze of even tone
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high, box

拍品专文

Compare the present lot with three other vases of identical design sold at Sotheby's, the first in New York, 1 June, 1988, lot 158; a second in London, 8 June 1993, lot 109; and a third also in London, 10 June 2003, lot 180.

Cf. a larger vase (28.6 cm. high) of this form covered in a flambé glaze in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Monochrome Porcelains of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taibei, 1970, no. 20.