A TWO-HANDLED FLAMBE VASE Incised Qianlong six-character seal mark and of the Period

A TWO-HANDLED FLAMBE VASE
Incised Qianlong six-character seal mark and of the Period
With U-shaped body, high sloping shoulder and cylindrical neck divided on each side by S-shaped scroll handles, the body with a wide channel of bowstring type below the sloping shoulder, the vase has an extremely fine flambe glazed of a rich purple-cranberry tone with attractive pale blue and turquoise streaks and thinning to a a pale blue on mushroom ground to the neck rim and interior.
8 3/4in (22.3cm) high, cloth box
Footnotes:
乾隆 《大清乾隆年製》款 窯變釉雙耳盖碗尊

Flambé glazes derive from the famed Jun wares of the Song dynasty (960-1279), a glaze that was first revived during the Yongzheng period (1723-35) and remained popular throughout the Qing dynasty.

Compare a flambé-glazed vase of this type included in the exhibition Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art Assembled by Yamanaka & Company, Inc., Yamanaka & Company, Inc., New York, 1943, no. 915, and another in the Capital Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Xiong Liao, Beauty of Ceramics. Gems of the Official Kilns, Taipei, 1993, pl. 147.

See a further examples from the Marie Theresa L. Virata Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 16 March 2017, lot 614; one from the Hosokawa clan, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2014, lot 3111, another from the Hall Family Collection, sold at Sotheby's London, 12 July 2006, lot 150 and Sotheby's Hong Kong, 12 October 2021, The Three Emperors: Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns from the Yidetang Collection, lot 40, for another. Finally see an example with a cut-down neck that sold at Christie's, New York, 17 March 217, lot 1235, from the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

For a Yongzheng prototype of this vase see one sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 21st September 2004, lot 316.