A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED VASE

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A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE FLAMBE-GLAZED VASE
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1725)

Of mallet-form with everted neck rising from broad shoulders well-moulded in relief with three equidistant ram heads above the truncated straight sides of the lower body, covered with a predominantly lustrous purple glaze with pale lavender-blue streaks, the glaze draining to a crackled pale ochre colour around the moulded ram heads and mouth rim, the countersunk base covered in a streaked mushroom-brown glaze
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high, stand, Japanese wood box

Provenance

A Japanese private collection

Sale room notice

Please note that there is a minor mouth rim restoration and a detailed condition report is available.

Lot Essay

No other vase of this unusual shape and covered with a flambé glaze appears to be published.

The three ram's heads evenly spaced at the shoulder is most often found on hu-shaped vases with crackled glazes, such as the Yongzheng vase illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1976, fig. 45; and the Qianlong example from the Walters Collection, illustrated by S. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, London, col. pl. LXXVII. The only flambé version appears to be a Yongzheng-marked vase offered in these Rooms, 31 October 1994, lot 643.

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