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PROPERTY FROM THE MICHAEL BARBER COLLECTION
A liver-red-glazed 'olive-stone' vase, Ganlanping
Qianlong underglaze-blue seal mark and of the PeriodThe unusual shape of pleasing bombe profile at the mid-section above a waisted foot and beneath an elegantly spreading trumpet neck, glazed in an attractive liver-red glaze that is a strong and vibrant tone to one side but thinning to a more grey-toned red on the other side, the interior neck also with some liver-red bleeding of the glaze, the white-glazed base centered by a six-character horizontal-format seal. 12 1/4in (31.1cm) high
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清乾隆 紅釉橄欖瓶 《大清乾隆年製》款ProvenanceWilliam Staines, Weymouth, England, UK (by repute) A label to the underside with the (possible) initials MT may be those of a member of Thornhill family of the United Kingdom.來源據藏家，William Staines, 英國韋茅斯Vases of this unusual shape, ganlanping, or 'olive-stone' are rare. The form itself was much admired in all three of the great imperial reigns of the Qing dynasty - Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. During the Kangxi period the shape was more attenuated, as exemplified by a pale-blue-glazed vase illustrated by John Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. 3, Geneva, 1972, no. A 328, which has a tall slender neck rising to a slightly everted mouth rim. Another with a copper-red glaze from the Meiyintang Collection, Part IV was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9 October 2012, lot 2; and another with an apple-green glaze and Qianlong seal mark engraved to the base, and formerly in the Edward T. Chow Collection see, Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part II, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, p. 222, no. 154. The somewhat more robust shape seen in the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods has a shorter neck and more widely flared mouth, as well as a slight flare at the foot. Such Yongzheng-marked vases include a blue and white example in the Palace Collection, Beijing, illustrated in Qingdai Yuyao ciqi, vol. 1, Beijing 2005, pp. 80-1, no. 29; another with a copper-red glaze ibid., pp. 38-39, no. 9, which is almost the same height as our example; and a blue-glazed example from the Gordon Collection, sold at Christies New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1157. Another superb and slightly larger example under a brilliant blue glaze and with a Yongzheng mark, see Sotheby's, London, Important Chinese Porcelain, 8 July 1974, lot 336. For a rare Yongzheng seal-marked olive-shaped vase with a superb lustrous celadon glaze but with the unusual additon of tubular handles at the neck, see Bonhams, Hong Kong, 3 December 2015, lot 22.
