A Chinese 'tea dust' vase, mark of Qianlong and of the period (1736-1795), the body of compressed shape, with cylindrical neck and covered overall with an opaque glaze of finely mottled dark yellowish-green colour that continues into the interior and also covers the base, the base with a six-character qianlong mark, drilled and now with French ormolu mounts, the vase 33cm high Provenance: The property of a Lady. A pair of vases of this type in the Seikado Bunko Museum, Tokyo, included in the Museum's exhibition Seikado zo Shincho toji. Keitokuchin kanyo no bi [Qing porcelain collected in the Seikado. Beauty of the Jingdezhen imperial kilns], Tokyo, 2006, cat. no. 109; one from the Meiyintang collection is published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, 1994, pl. 936; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics. Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, pl. 25; and a fifth example is included in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 297. 清乾隆 "大清乾隆年制"款茶叶末釉荸荠瓶 拍品来源：英国私人女士珍藏 Condition Report: The base drilled through the reign mark and later adapted into a lamp base with French ormolu Condition Report Disclaimer