A FINE AND RARE GUAN-TYPE HU-SHAPED VASE

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A FINE AND RARE GUAN-TYPE HU-SHAPED VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The globular pear-shaped body is set on the shoulders with three ram's heads in high relief above two pairs of raised concentric ribs, surmounted by a broad slightly flared neck and supported on a convex foot, covered with an unctuous pale grey glaze suffused with a network of brown crackles
11 3/4 in. (30 cm.) high, stand

来源

The Major Small Collection.

拍品专文

Several vases of this form with crackled glazes are known, one from the Walters Collection, illustrated by S. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, London, col. pl. LXXVII; one with imitation ruyao glaze included in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Monochrome-glazed Porcelain, 1981, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 88; another illustrated by Liu Liang-Yu, Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, p. 205; and a Yongzheng version with a ge-type glaze is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1976, fig. 45.