Chinese crackle glazed bottle vase. Of pear-shaped body with eight faceted sides rising to a tall tapering neck below the everted mouth, the body and neck encircled by raised groove bands simulating bamboo, covered all over with a creamy glaze suffused with dense networks of dark and finer light russet crackles, 7.3"h. Property of a Vancouver, Canada estate, purchased from John Sparks London. Accompanying this lot is a photocopy of original receipt (see item 3) dated May 8, 1965.