Beschreibung:

A PALE TURQUOISE-GLAZED GARLIC-MOUTH BOTTLE VASE 19TH / 20TH CENTURY the rounded pear-shaped body supported on a slightly splayed foot, tapering to a slender neck and swelling to a garlic-head mouth and upright rim, the neck with two subtly raised filets, covered overall in a luminous pale turquoise glaze suffused with fine crackles, the interior and recessed base glazed white, the latter with an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue Height 7 3/4 in., 19.6 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance Sotheby's London, 8th November 2006, lot 232. Literature Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 160.