QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details

A FINE GUAN-TYPE GLAZED VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase is potted with a compressed globular body above a short splayed foot and below a long slender neck rising to a slightly flared mouth, covered overall with a crackled glaze of greyish-green tone. The foot is applied with a brown dressing.
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high, box

Provenance

The J.M. Hu Collection

Literature

Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. IV, Hong Kong, 1950, pl. 172

Exhibited

Shanghai Museum, Beijing Museum, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Qing Imperial Monochromes. The Zande Lou Collection, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, 2005, Catalogue, pl. 34

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Lot Essay

The characteristics of Song guan wares, with a brown dressed foot and glaze thinning at the mouth rim to reveal the body underneath, is well exemplified on this current vase. Compare to another Qianlong-marked vase of this shape, with a ge-type glaze, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 20 May 1986, lot 83. A guan-type glazed vase with a Yongzheng mark of similar form was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 May 2009, lot 1888.

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