A baluster-shaped ‘soft-paste’ vase with trumpet-shaped neck
Yongzheng, possibly later
On the narrow neck two elephant heads with separate ring, the cream-coloured glaze with grey craquelure.
H. 20.5 cm
Provenance:
– Auction Christie’s London, 7 July 1980, lot 109
– Collection J.M. Kater (1907-1986), Monster
– By descent to the present owner
Literature:
S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, Faber & Faber, London, 1965, ill. LXX, 1 for an identical vase in the collection of the British Museum in London
N.B.:
The vase illustrated in Arts of Asia, March-April 1982, page 112.