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

Compare a small Ge-type bottle vase with a Qianlong four-character mark illustrated in Ethereal Elegance, Porcelain Vases in the Imperial Qing, the Huaihaitang Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007, no.48, p 178. Similarly, compare with a guan-type small Qianlong mark and period bottle vase from the same collection and illustrated in the same book, no. 36, p 154. A very similar but slightly smaller (10 cm. high) vase also with a Qianlong four-character mark from the collection of Stephen Junkunc III was sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2008, lot 633.