A RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED ARCHAISTIC VASE, HU
A RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED ARCHAISTIC VASE, HU

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A RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED ARCHAISTIC VASE, HU
YONGZHENG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The pear-shaped body with double-ribs at the shoulder and applied with two taotie mask handles suspending fixed rings, all under a characteristically thick and bright purple glaze with turquoise streaks thinning to a brown over the extremities and mouth rim, the base washed in café-au-lait and splashed in celadon
10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) high, box, stand

Lot Essay

Only one other flambé-glazed vase of this form and design is known, included in the Min Chiu Society Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, In Pursuit of Antiquities, Hong Kong, 1995, illustrated in the Catalogue, pl. 137, and subsequently sold in these Rooms, The Jingguantang Collection, 3 November 1996, lot 564.

Cf. other related flambé-glazed vases bearing Yongzheng marks, although none of this exact form, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, pp. 278-281, pls. 107-110.

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