A RARE GUAN-TYPE SMALL QUADRUPLE VASE

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. JAMES ALSDORF

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A RARE GUAN-TYPE SMALL QUADRUPLE VASE
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Potted as four conjoined, slender cylindrical vases, each of identical size and form with a short waisted neck and rounded mouth rim, their arrangement forming a central deep square aperture, the exterior and base covered in a luminescent pale-blue glaze with a wide network of yellowish-brown crackle pooling at the adjacent sides, the base of each vase with one character of the nianhao encircled by the dark-brown- dressed footrim--4in. (10cm.) high, box

Exhibited

Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf, September 21-November 13, 1970, no. c59

Lot Essay

A very similar Yongzheng-marked vase of slightly larger size with a Ru-type glaze is in the National Palace Musuem, Taipei, and was included in the exhibition, Qing Monochrome Porcelain, 1981, Catalogue no. 77.

Cf. also a celadon-glazed example of the same size with a Yongzheng mark from the J.M. Hu Collection sold in New York, 4 June 1985, lot 40

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