UNDERGLAZE-BLUE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

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A RU-TYPE LOBED VASE
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
Potted after a Song prototype of lobed foliate section, the compressed spherical body on a high, slightly splayed foot and surmounted by a tall ribbed neck below an everted rim, covered in a pale smoky greyish-blue glaze with a fine crackle
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high

Provenance

W.W. Winkworth
E. T. Hall Collection, no. 262

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar vase from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1986, no. 102. Another from the San Francisco Asian Art Museum is illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, London, 1996, pl. 523. Compare also a Jiaqing example in the Meiyintang Collection illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, p.221, no. 881.

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