A celadon glazed vas, late Qing dynasty, with Yongzheng mark.
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Pear shaped with a bulb shaped rim, ring handles to the shoulder, glazed in a celadon glaze. Base with a Yongzheng six character mark within double circle in underglaze blue. Height 21 cm.
Firing spots.
Provenance
Property of a private Finnish Collection.
The collection was formed between 1980-2020, the collector has had an interest in China and Chinese Works of Art since childhood, growing up in Beijing. He returned to China in grownup years for work, he came to live in China altogether more than 40 years. His love of China, and Chinese works of art is mirrored in the collection and being an academic collector, he never got tired of learning more about the subject by studying literature, attending lectures, visiting museums, auction houses and befriending curators from Peking, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 1.