A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE CHINESE RU-TYPE 'THREE RAMS' BULBOUS VASE Yongzheng Mark and Probably of the Period finely potted the globular body supported upon a flared foot and rising to a thick waisted neck with flared mouth encircled by two double raised fillets around the body and another at the base of the neck applied with three rams head at the shoulders covered overall with a pale blue glaze. 33 cm x 20 cm. Provenance: Private UK Residence consigned with several 17th/18th century Chinese Export pieces amongst other items European items collected principally in the 1970s and 1980s by the current vendors parents. Note: See two further vases a Yongzheng and a Qianlong example with a similar Ru-type glaze in the National Palace Museum Taipei the former published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum: K'ang-hsi Ware and Yung-cheng Ware Tokyo 1980 pl. 129 the latter included in the Museum's exhibition Qingdai danseyou ciqi /Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National Palace Museum Taipei 1989 cat. no. 88. Another Qianlong vase with a Guan-type glaze in the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore is published in S.W. Bushell Oriental Ceramic Art London 1981 (1896) col. pl. LXXVII. For a teadust glazed 'three ram' vase of Qianlong mark and period see one from the collections of T.Y. Chao and Ira and Nancy Koger sold three times in Sotheby's 1979 1986 and 1992 and once in their New York rooms 1990 illustrated in Sotheby's. Thirty Years in Hong Kong Hong Kong 2003 pl. 157. Please also note this is a premium lot and unavailable for online bidding we will require a £2500 deposit for new bidders.