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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN FAMILY COLLECTION
AN UNUSUAL SMALL SKY-BLUE CRACKLE-GLAZED HEXAGONAL DISH
QIANLONG YU WAN FOUR-CHARACTER INSCRIBED MARK AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Details
AN UNUSUAL SMALL SKY-BLUE CRACKLE-GLAZED HEXAGONAL DISH
QIANLONG YU WAN FOUR-CHARACTER INSCRIBED MARK AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Stoutly potted with shallow flared sides, covered overall with a thick sky-blue glaze suffused with a fine network of black ('iron wire') crackle which also covers the base where the mark is inscribed, the hexagonal foot unglazed to expose the dark brown ware
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) across, box
QIANLONG YU WAN FOUR-CHARACTER INSCRIBED MARK AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Stoutly potted with shallow flared sides, covered overall with a thick sky-blue glaze suffused with a fine network of black ('iron wire') crackle which also covers the base where the mark is inscribed, the hexagonal foot unglazed to expose the dark brown ware
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) across, box
Provenance
Edward T. Chow.
M.C. Wang Collection, China, formed through the 1940s, and thence by descent to the present owners.
M.C. Wang Collection, China, formed through the 1940s, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
H.D. Ling and E.T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Hall of Leisurely Pastime, vol. II, no. 74.