A Small Celadon-Glazed Handled Vase Seal Mark and Period of Qianlong the compressed globular body rising from a flared foot to broad angular shoulders, surmounted by a waisted neck surmounted by a 'garlic-bulb' mouth, covered overall in an unctuous celadon glaze of sea-foam green tone, the lower body intricately carved with fifteen pendent cicada lappets enclosing leiwen motifs, all between a chevron band below the shoulders and band of petal lappets above the foot, the shoulders carved with a collar of pendent petal lappets above two stylised pairs of confronting dragons in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl' interrupted by four 'rope-twist' handles carved in openwork, the neck divided into two registers by a wider band of 'rope-twist', the upper register with upright petal lappets, the lower with dots and a pendent palmette band, all between a band of stylised ruyi motifs encircling the mouthrim and base of the neck, the foot further skirted with a lappet band, the base carved in relief with a six-character reign mark on a recessed panel 18.7 cm., 7 3/8 in.
A Small Celadon-Glazed Handled Vase Seal Mark and Period of Qianlong the compressed globular body rising from a flared foot to broad angular shoulders, surmounted by a waisted neck surmounted by a 'garlic-bulb' mouth, covered overall in an unctuous celadon glaze of sea-foam green tone, the lower body intricately carved with fifteen pendent cicada lappets enclosing leiwen motifs, all between a chevron band below the shoulders and band of petal lappets above the foot, the shoulders carved with a collar of pendent petal lappets above two stylised pairs of confronting dragons in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl' interrupted by four 'rope-twist' handles carved in openwork, the neck divided into two registers by a wider band of 'rope-twist', the upper register with upright petal lappets, the lower with dots and a pendent palmette band, all between a band of stylised ruyi motifs encircling the mouthrim and base of the neck, the foot further skirted with a lappet band, the base carved in relief with a six-character reign mark on a recessed panel 18.7 cm., 7 3/8 in.
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