清乾隆 粉青釉刻纏枝蓮紋花插 六字篆書款清乾隆 粉青釉刻纏枝蓮紋花插 六字篆書款3 1⁄8 in. (7.8 cm.) highDetails A CARVED CELADON-GLAZED FLOWER-HOLDERQIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)The finely potted compressed pear-shaped body is carved elaborately with leafy lotus foliage and the foot is encircled by a band of stylised petals. The slightly domed top has three circular apertures and is similarly decorated with further lotus tendrils. The glaze is of an even translucent bluish-green colour.3 1⁄8 in. (7.8 cm.) high Provenance Acquired circa 1990 Literature Robert Jacobsen, Ye Peilan and Julian Thompson: Imperial Perfection.The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi - Yongzheng - Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 196, no. 74 Exhibited On loan to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1997-2020Compare the present lot to a celadon-glazed flower-holder from the Yongzheng period in the Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, PDF, B. 578, now in the British Museum, published by Rosemary Scott in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1989, p.57. An almost identical flower-holder from the Qianlong period in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was exhibited in Qingdai danse you ciqi tezhan (Special Exhibition of Monochrome glazed Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty), Taipei, 1981, no. 93. Another celadon-glazed flower-holder with carved flower tendrils from the Qianlong period is published by Reginal Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 869, subsequently sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, The Meiyintang Collection, Part III, 3 April 2012, lot 7.