QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE 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, covered overall with a guan-type soft greyish glaze suffused with pale crackles.

Vases of this form are known as piekou guanyin zun and are one of the typical forms during the Qianlong period, Geng Baochang recorded in Mingqing ciqi jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, p.263, pl.450-3. Compare also with a ru-type glazed vase of the same form, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November 2006, lot 1582.