A LARGE GUAN-TYPE QUATREFOIL MOON FLASK

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Details

A LARGE GUAN-TYPE QUATREFOIL MOON FLASK
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The moon flask is applied to the neck with two scroll handles, and is covered in a glaze of bluish-grey tone suffused with a light network of crackles, stopping neatly around the foot and at small areas of the extremities to reveal the dark grey body.
19 ¾ in. (50.4 cm) high

Provenance

The Collection of Sir Harry (1891-1977) and Lady Garner.
The Collection of Professor E.T. (Teddy) Hall (1924-2001), no. 274.

Exhibited

Exhibition of Ju and Kuan Wares: Imperial Wares of the Sung Dynasty, Related Wares and Derivatives of Later Date, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 12 Nov - 13 Dec 1952, no. 120.

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Lot Essay

It is very rare to find guan-type glazed vases of this shape and size, although comparable vases with ge-type glaze are known. Compare a ge-type example sold AT Christie's London, 15 July 1981, lot 45, and illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History, London, 1984, p. 218, no. 1; and another, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 707. Compare also a large Yongzheng-marked ge-type vase of archaic hu shape included in the exhibition, Qingdai Danse You Ciqi, 'Qing Dynasty Monochrome Wares', National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in the catalogue, 1981, p. 139, no. 82.
A Ge-type moonflask of the same form was sold in Christies Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot 3274.

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