BLUE-GLAZED LARGE BOTTLE VASE QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH

BLUE-GLAZED LARGE BOTTLE VASE QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY 清 霽è—釉大天çƒç“¶ sturdily potted, the globular body slightly tapering down, applied overall with a thick dark blue glaze pooling above on the foot (42.3cm high) Qty: (1) Provenance: Private English collection, acquired by Henry Lardner Dennys (1852 -1926) thence by descent. Henry Lardner Dennys arrived in Hong Kong in 1868 to serve his articles as a solicitor, and rose to become Crown Solicitor in 1896 and helped negotiate the Treaty for the New Territories for the colony of Hong Kong, and saved Dr Sun Yat Sen – the father of modern China - from capture at the hands of the Imperial police in 1895. The photo, illustrated in the article 'My Great-Grandfather: The Man Who Saved Dr Sun Yat Sen' in The Hong Kong Tatler, published in June 1987, p. 83, includes this blue vase displaying on the left table of the Drawing Room, 'Brockhurst' house, one of the first residences on the Mount Gough, east of Victoria Peak, Hong Kong.