Lot 145 , A large Chinese flambé-glazed bottle vase, tianqiuping, 18th/19th century, star crack to base

A large Chinese flambé-glazed bottle vase, tianqiuping, 18th/19th century, covered in a thick purple, violet, copper red and black streaked crackle glaze, 39.5cm high, wood stand, star crack to base
£1,000-1,500

Condition:
Provenance - UK private collection, 1920s or earlier, thence by family descent. This collection of late Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain and bronze vessels has been owned by a single Cotswold family for a number of generations dating back to the 1920s or earlier. The collection was formerly on display at the family home in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK before the house was sold in the 1980s. Some interior photos taken c.1982 show a number of the pieces on display in the family house and an inventory undertaken in 1948 by the local Campden auctioneer and valuer Alfred Bower lists many of the items. Extracts of the 1948 inventory are included where they correspond to the relevant lots in the sale. This vase is item 30 on the 1948 inventory. There are two areas of splinter chips to the edge of the unglazed foot, one with an associated star crack extending across the base but not up the side of the vase, otherwise in good condition with no restoration detected.

Sold for £1,100