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A GUAN-TYPE VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Of archaic fang hu shape with chamfered corners and short cylindrical handles, all under a thick pale grey glaze stopping neatly above the foot (base glaze line)--5 1/2in. (14cm.) high

Lot Essay

For Song prototypes inscribed with Qianlong poems in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, cf. Kuan Ware of the Sung Dynasty, col. pls. 3a and 3b, and Kuan Ware of the Southern Sung, book II, pl. 3.

For Qianlong examples, cf. Bo Byllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Karl Kempe Collection, Catalogue, no. 210; Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1964-1965, vol. 35; The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, no. 276; Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. LXIV, from the Garner Collection, now in the British Museum; and J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, Catalogue, vol. III, no. A344. Cf. also the example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 248, no. 77

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