This vase is an excellent example of the archaistic bronze forms produced in simulated Ru and crackle glazes during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods.

Compare with a Yongzheng-marked vase of similar form and colour glaze sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 April 1997, lot 577. Another Yongzheng vase of this shape covered in a ge-type glaze is illustrated in The Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, no. 63.