A RARE MOLDED CELADON-GLAZED FIVE-NECKED VASE

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A RARE MOLDED CELADON-GLAZED FIVE-NECKED VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The wide, rounded body supported on a spreading foot and rising to a central, slightly waisted wide neck with four shorter and more slender waisted necks rising from the shoulder at the cardinal points, the body molded overall with stylized lotus centered by shou characters on a meandering composite floral scroll and continuing to the four smaller necks, the wider central neck with pendent musical stones and further scrolling, the spreading foot with stylized lappets, one neck rim repaired
10¼in. (26cm.) high

拍品專文

Most of the recorded multi-necked vases appear to be formed from a number of bodies grouped around a central vase rather than in this example where there is one body with separate necks rising from the shoulder. For a celadon-glazed example of the former see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, November 1/2, 1994, lot 113 and for an example of the latter, but of more elongated form, see The Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, Catalogue, no. 65