Dimensions: Width: 25.4 cm, Height: 33.3 cm

Chinese Qing Dynasty Guang Zhangxu Tea Foam Porcelain Tianqiu Bottle Vase. The name of this shape of vase in Chinese is tianqiuping heavenly globe vase, and it is significant that in Chinese iconography the earth is represented by a square, while heaven is represented by a circle. Hence, the large globular body of such vases provides an ideal reference to heaven. This vase is a particularly large and impressive specimen of the tianqiuping shape. Warm and uniform tea foam glaze applied to the surface, only the outer bottom is white glazed. Tea powder glaze is one of the important varieties of iron crystal glaze in ancient China. The Iridescent Green pale, gilt splashes and streaks characteristic of this glaze are described as yao bian, or transmutation glaze and resulting from transmutation of colloidal copper, iron, or other metallic materials into suffusions breaking up the glaze surface.The Under-base bears a reign mark, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark. Made in The Years Guang Zhangxu Reign Period of The Great Qing Dynasty.

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