Evenly covered with a thick bright deep turquoise glaze suffused with marbled mottling of deep red and violet, stopping just above the bottom edge of the foot ring, with slightly everted rim above a compressed globular body flanked by two lion mask handles, the base with an impressed six-character Qianlong seal mark.

H. 4 1/4 in., top rim D. 4 1/4 in. L over handles, L 6 1/2 in.

Note: Robin's-Egg glaze is achieved by applying an opaque stippled turquoise glaze colored with copper and made opaque by mixing the arsenic as an opacifier. Rose Kerr noted in Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, p. 88, that while visual examination reveals there are two distinctive types of robin's-egg glaze, one streaked with copper-red and the other stippled with blotches of turquoise and dark blue. Robin's egg glaze first appeared during the Yongzheng reign, as a re-interpretation of the Song dynasty Jun wares and innovation of the Imperial kiln potters. It is known as lu Jun (furnace Jun) glaze in Chinese because it was fired in a furnace of lower temperature for the second time. For detailed discussion, refer to Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, p. 252.

Condition: Some light abrasions and scratches commensurate with age.

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