PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES E. BREECE III A COBALT-PURPLE-BLUE-SPLASHED TURQUOISE-GLAZED ' LINGZHI '-FORM VASEQianlong period With a central twisting trunk with a large umbrella-shaped lingzhi -head which has been molded to imitate the natural fungus, the lower trunk with eight smaller lingzhi -heads that rise and surround two-thirds of the trunk, the glaze stopping above the flat biscuit base which fires orange in places. 8in (22cm) high 清乾隆時期 仿鈞釉靈芝形花插 Provenance: James E. Breece III 來源： James E. Breece III舊藏 For a smaller example (14cm high) with a robin's-egg glaze in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, also modelled with eight smaller lingzhi sprouting from the main body but bearing a Qianlong four-character seal mark, see the npm.edu.tws , accession no. K1B005520. For a differently-shaped ' lingzhi ' vase with a Ru -type glaze see Christie's, Hong Kong, May 30th, 2012, lot 4151. See also another example of Ru -type illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Qing Mark and Period: Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares , S Marchant & Son, London, 1992, pp. 48, no. 34.