Lot Essay
Compare with a similar vase with a ru-type glaze included in the National Palace Museum Special Exhibition of Qing Dynasty Monochromes, Taiwan, 1981, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 133, col. pl. 79 and illustrated by Lu Liang-yu, Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, vol. 5., Taipei, 1991, p. 132; and the ge-type example in this sale, lot 1252.
The vase compares with one of guan type painted by Giuseppe Castiglione, dated Yongzheng First Year (1723), in the National Palace Museum, Tapei, illustrated by Michel Beurdeley and Guy Raindre, Qing Porcelain, Fribourg, 1986, pl. 216 (reproduced as fig. 1 in the catalogue entry for lot 1252).
Compare also a slightly larger vase of this form with a Qianlong sealmark, sold in these Rooms, 27 April, 1997, lot 62.
The vase compares with one of guan type painted by Giuseppe Castiglione, dated Yongzheng First Year (1723), in the National Palace Museum, Tapei, illustrated by Michel Beurdeley and Guy Raindre, Qing Porcelain, Fribourg, 1986, pl. 216 (reproduced as fig. 1 in the catalogue entry for lot 1252).
Compare also a slightly larger vase of this form with a Qianlong sealmark, sold in these Rooms, 27 April, 1997, lot 62.