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Lot Essay
This vase is almost certainly made to a specific Imperial commission. A painting by the famous Italian Jesuit, Giuseppe Castiglione, dated to the first year of Yongzheng (corresponding to 1723) shows a ru-type glazed vase of this form containing flowers, illustrated in Lang Shining Zuoping Zhuanji, 'Collected Works of Giuseppe Castiglione', National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 1982, pl. 1 (fig. 1).
The form of the present vase is called in Chinese xianwen ping meaning 'string pattern vase', and is derived from Song dynasty Guanyao vases, such as the examples included in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Special Exhibition of Sung Dynasty Kuan Ware, 1989, illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 21-23, 25-26, a few inscribed with Qianlong poems.
A very similar Yongzheng vase covered with a ru-type glaze is in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Monochrome Porcelains of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taiwan, 1981, pl. 79; while a smaller ge-type vase (16.2 cm.) of this shape, from the Goldschmidt Collection, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 72.
The form of the present vase is called in Chinese xianwen ping meaning 'string pattern vase', and is derived from Song dynasty Guanyao vases, such as the examples included in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Special Exhibition of Sung Dynasty Kuan Ware, 1989, illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 21-23, 25-26, a few inscribed with Qianlong poems.
A very similar Yongzheng vase covered with a ru-type glaze is in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Monochrome Porcelains of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taiwan, 1981, pl. 79; while a smaller ge-type vase (16.2 cm.) of this shape, from the Goldschmidt Collection, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 72.