Description Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period Of pear-shape, with a narrow waisted neck rising to a flaring mouth and supported by a splayed foot ring, covered to the exterior with a dark cherry-red glaze with jupiwen surface, to the interior and the base with a transparent glaze. Crack.
Dimensions Height 30 cm
Literature Compare Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesische Keramik: Meisterwerke aus Privatsammlungen, Museum for East Asian Art, Cologne 1988, Cat. no. 110 (Bernheimer and Hellebronth collections)
Provenance Private collection, Ruhr area, Germany, assembled in the 1960s, acquired at China-Bohlken, Westerland, in the year 1966, and thence in the family by descent
Notes VAT: Margin scheme
