A Rare Clair-de-Lune-Glazed Lobed Double-Gourd Vase

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A Rare Clair-de-Lune-Glazed Lobed Double-Gourd Vase

YONGZHENG ARCHAISTIC SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

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A Rare Clair-de-Lune-Glazed Lobed Double-Gourd Vase
Yongzheng archaistic seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period
Of elegant form, the six lobes of the upper body terminating at the narrow waist in a scalloped edge above the six lobes of the lower body which continue under the base, covered overall with a ru-like glaze of even pale blue tone continuing inside the neck and over the base except for six brown-dressed 'spur marks'
10½in. (26.7cm.) high

Literature

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection: bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944, pl. XXXVI, no. 81.

Special notice

Tax exempt.

Lot Essay

A similar vase of this rare form similarly glazed and with a Yongzheng mark in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics; Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, Taipei, 1991, vol. 5, p. 100 (right); and another in the Grandidier Collection, Musée Guimet, Paris, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, no. 169.

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