A BLUE-GLAZED MOULDED ARCHAISTIC BRONZE-SHAPED VESSEL AND COVER, GUI

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A BLUE-GLAZED MOULDED ARCHAISTIC BRONZE-SHAPED VESSEL AND COVER, GUI
GUANGXU INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

The shallow rounded body moulded around the sides with archaistic motifs above a wave border, flanked by a pair of loop handles emerging from animal masks, the dome-shaped foot with further archaistic patterns, the domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by four triangular flanges, all under a deep blue glaze
9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.) high

Provenance

The Yangzhitang Collection, sold in our Singapore Rooms, 30 March 1997, lot 339

Exhibited

Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, Catalogue no. 144
Imperial Porcelain of Late Ch'ing from the Kwan Collection, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1985, Catalogue no. 144

Lot Essay

Cf. a white-glazed Qianlong-marked vessel of this form included in the Special Exhibition in Kaohsiung City loaned by the National Palace Museum's Seventieth Anniversary, Great National Treasures of China, p. 283, fig. 76; and another similar white-glazed Guangxu-marked vessel sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1995, lot 742.

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