TWO CHINESE FLAMBE GLAZED VASES
18TH CENTURY
One a bottle vase, the other a meiping, each coated in a rich maroon glaze with streaks and flecks of lavender and orange, the glaze thinning to a pale brown at the mouth rims, 20.6cm. (2)
Provenance: formerly in the collection of Lieutenant-Colonel W B R Neave-Hill (1912-2000) and thence by descent. Neave-Hill was a client of Bluett's from 1953 until the 1970s and he published Chinese Ceramics in 1975. He was secretary of the Oriental Ceramic Society for many years and lent six pieces to the Society's exhibition The Ceramic Art of China in 1971.