PROVENANCE: From the Collections of Henry Windermere (1932- 2018) Covington, Georgia, served US Army for more than 28 years, retiring as a colonel. His received many military medals. He then became Westminster Services training coordinator and working as a program director for a defense contractor based in Xianggang China. Among his varied interests and passions were collecting Chinese art pieces. Dimensions (cm): Height: 36 Diameter: 25 Chinese Qing Dynasty Period Tea Dust Glazed Porcelain Reward Vase. The porcelain potted in reward shape vase, thick and tall, ovoid lower body, tapered gracefully toward straight tall cylindrical neck, with straight mouth rim, raised on a short small round foot base with slight concave. Covered overall in pale green under glazed with densely dusted, with attractive green pale toward upper rim on a green pale porcelain body with golden-yellow pickles pattern covered all the vase. 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 clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. Mark on base, a six under glazed blue seal script characters reign mark, Made In The Years of TongZhi Reign Period of Great Qing Dynasty.