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A RARE SMALL GE-TYPE HU
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Moulded with three tiers of raised twin bands around the tapering body, the broad shoulders flanked by a pair of moulded monster-masks suspending rings integral with the body, all raised on a spreading foot and covered with a pale grey glaze suffused with a network of wider dark grey and finer golden-brown crackles
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) high, stand, box

Lot Essay

Cf. a larger Yongzheng vase (55.5 cm.) of this shape and with a guan-type glaze, sold in our London Rooms, 6 December 1993, lot 99; a vase of this rare shape and size, covered with a flambé glaze, from the Hall Family Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 536; and another with a robin's-egg glaze in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 290, pl. 119.

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