A RARE AND FINE GUAN-TYPE LOBED HEXAGONAL VASE

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A RARE AND FINE GUAN-TYPE LOBED HEXAGONAL VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The body and spreading foot divided into six lobes with rounded edges and slightly fluted centers conforming to the outline of the overlapping petals molded on the high shoulder and repeated more subtley on the everted mouth rim, with a pair of dragon scroll handles flanking the tall cylindrical neck, covered overall with an unctuous glaze of even grayish blue-green tone also covering the base, the foot rim coated with a matte, blackish-brown wash in imitation of Song guanyao--7 3/4in. (19.7cm.) high, box

Exhibited

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 91

Lot Essay

Compare the very similar vase in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated by Ayers in Chinese Ceramics, vol. 3, 1972, no. A370, where the author notes that another example is in the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated in the Catalogue of the Elizabeth Severance Prentiss Collection, 1944, no. 98, pl. xxxvi