A FINE GUAN-TYPE BALUSTER VASE
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A FINE GUAN-TYPE BALUSTER VASE

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A FINE GUAN-TYPE BALUSTER VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Strongly potted with an ovoid body supported on a flared foot and surmounted by a cylindrical neck rising to an everted rim, the vase is entirely covered with a thick pale grey glaze suffused with a network of fine brown crackles
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

A Qianlong-marked vase of this form with a guan-type glaze is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art and is illustrated by Mino and Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility, The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, p. 340, fig. 20; and another identical example was sold in New York, 1 June 1994, lot 392. Compare also a related Qianlong vase with more slender proportions and a pale celadon glaze, illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1974, no. A380.

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