A RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED SONG-STYLE BOTTLE VASE
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A RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED SONG-STYLE BOTTLE VASE

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A RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED SONG-STYLE BOTTLE VASE
YONGZHENG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Set on a slightly flared foot slotted at the sides with opposing rectangular apertures, the slightly compressed globular body encirled by moulded bands around the shoulder and rising to a tall ribbed neck surmounted by a cupped mouth, covered overall in a lustrous streaked lavender blue and purple glaze, the countersunk base covered in a greenish-brown wash
14¾in. (37.5cm.) high, stand, Japanese wood box

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.

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