A FINE SMALL RU-TYPE FACETED HU-FORM VASE, QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

A FINE SMALL RU-TYPE FACETED HU-FORM VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase of well-potted octagonal section is supported on a conforming foot, the neck is flanked by a pair of tubular lug handles, and the vase is covered inside and out in an even, opaque, pale-blue glaze stopping short of the brown-dressed foot rim.
5 ½ in. (14 cm.) high

Provenance
The Property of a Lady; Sotheby's London, 11 December 1984, lot 426.
S. Marchant & Son, London.
Private collection, England.
S. Marchant & Son, London, 1991.
Kenneth Langsdorf Collection, St. Louis, Missouri, no. 215.

Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF MARCHANT, EST. 1925

Literature
S. Marchant & Son, Exhibition of Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares, London, 1992, p. 49, no. 35.

Exhibited
London, S. Marchant & Son, Exhibition of Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares, 7 - 26 June 1992.