UNDERGLAZE-BLUE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

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A GE-TYPE VASE, HU
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
The ovoid vase with a slightly flaring neck and standing on a spreading foot, applied with two mask handles with fixed rings, covered overall in a creamy grey glaze with dark crackles stopping neatly above the dark foot rim
10¼ in. (26.1 cm.) high

Provenance

E. T. Hall Collection, no. 244

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Lot Essay

Compare a larger vase (55.5 cm. high) with Yongzheng mark of this shape but with a guan-type glaze sold in these Rooms, 6 December 1993, lot 99; and a similar vase of the same size and glaze as the present lot, also with a Yongzheng mark, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 706.

Compare also a vase of this rare size and shape, but with a flambé glaze, from the Hall Family Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 536; and another with a robin's-egg glaze in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 290, pl. 119

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