Ceramic vase with flambé glaze, with Qianlong mark

Ceramic modelled and covered with a beautiful ‘flambé’ glaze in a deep raspberry colour with purple and sky-blue flecks. It has a circular, flared base, on which is a bulging body flanked by two handles of beasts' heads in relief, and decorated with fine pairs of horizontal ribs. It ends in a slender neck with a flaring mouth. The base is embossed with a six-character seal ‘大清乾隆年制’.

Height: 24.3 cm; Mouth diameter: 10 cm; Base diameter: approx. 10 cm