The glaze of an intensive dark-brown varying to purple when exposed to sunlight, the handles with an iridescent black glaze China, 19th – earlier 20th century The vases are delicately potted in traditional pear-shape form rising from massive, tapered feet to sprawling necks. The exteriors are evenly covered with a monochrome purple-brown glaze thinning to white on several encircling bow-string bands. The interiors are covered with a transparent glaze, the bases show the purple-brown glaze and impressed Yongzheng six-character seal marks. The shoulders bear two mock ring handles each, with molded mythical beasts. Shape: Pear shape / YUHUCHUNPING Dimensions: 40 cm (height) Condition: Excellent with only very minor scratches to glaze, old soiling, one vase with minor repair to inner side of foot rim Provenance: Austrian private collection, assembled in Asia in and before the 1930s, remainders of old inscriptions by the collector to the bases Literature comparison: Oriental Ceramic Art, S. W. Bushell, Frederick Muller, London, 1981, page 201, glaze number 32. 晚清一對紫褐色釉象耳玉壺春瓶 品相極好，釉面稍有劃痕，污跡，瓶足内側邊緣有小修復 奧地利私人收藏，上世紀三十年代在亞洲購得，底部有藏家收藏舊標簽