Live Auction 2325Important Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art
A RARE RU-TYPE GLAZED VASE
Lot 1582THE PROPERTY OF AN ASIAN GENTLEMAN

A RARE RU-TYPE GLAZED VASE

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HKD 540,000

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A RARE RU-TYPE GLAZED VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The slender ovoid body rising to a narrow waisted neck and a flaring mouth rim, supported on a spreading foot, applied overall with a soft bluish grey glaze suffused with a wide network of fine pale brown crackles, the foot ring with a brown wash
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high, stand, box

Specialist note

Vases of this form with guan-type glazes are known, one in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, illustrated by Mino and Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility, The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, p. 340, fig. 20; and another sold in these Rooms, 28 October 2002, lot 722A. Compare also a related Qianlong vase covered in a pale celadon glaze, illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1974, no. A380.