A MASSIVE RARE GE-TYPE QUATREFOIL MOONFLASK

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A MASSIVE RARE GE-TYPE QUATREFOIL MOONFLASK
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Sturdily potted, the flattened body with moulded lobed sides, flanked on either side of the shoulder with a pair of stylised scroll-handles joined to the tall quatrefoil neck, rising to a rolled mouth rim, raised on a conforming short quatrefoil splayed foot, covered in a pale greenish-grey glaze suffused with a network of dark and another of fine crackles, stopping above the foot ring dressed in a brown wash (top of neck restored)
20 1/2 in. (52 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A comparable vase of this shape and size was sold in our London Rooms, 15 July 1981, lot 45; and illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History, London, 1984, p. 218, no. 1. Examples of large vessels were made during the Qing dynasty in reverence to earlier Song period glazes; for a large Yongzheng-marked ge-type vase of archaic hu-shape included in the exhibition, Qingdai Danse You Ciqi, 'Qing Dynasty Monochrome Wares', National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in the Catalogue, 1981, p. 139, no. 82.

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