QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A VERY RARE GUAN-TYPE HEXAGONAL VASE, HU
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Of compressed hexagonal section, the body with a prominent shoulder rising to a waisted neck with slightly lipped rim set with a pair of tubular handles, all supported on a high flared foot, covered overall in a greyish-green glaze with fine crackle
12 in. (30.6 cm.) high, stand, Japanese wood box

Provenance

A Japanese private collection

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Lot Essay

Although vases of this form decorated in blue and white, as well as crackle glazes, are well known in the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods, the relatively small size of the present vase marks it out as a particularly rare example.

Another slightly larger (34.8 cm. high) Qianlong-marked example was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9 October 2007, lot 1526. A larger Yongzheng-marked Guan-type vase of this form in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing is illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain, The Complete Collection of Treasures from the Palace Museum, vol. 37, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 204.

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