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

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A FINE SMALL GUAN-TYPE VASE, HU
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Of facetted octagonal section supported on a conforming foot, the pear-shaped body rising to a broad neck flanked by a pair of tubular lug handles, covered inside and out in an even, opaque, pale celadon glaze stopping short of the footrim
5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Dr Carl Kempe Collection, sold at Sotheby's Paris, 12 June 2008, lot 124

Literature

B. Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 210
Chinese Ceramic Treasures, a Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection, the Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities, Ulricehamn, 2002, p. 410, no. 429

Exhibited

Oriental Ceramic Society, London, Jun and Kuan Wares, 1952, no. 108

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Lot Essay

Qianlong-marked vases of this form and size with a Guan-type glaze are known: in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the exhibition, Qing Monochrome Porcelain, 1981, Catalogue, no. 89; illustrated by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, no. A343; and the example in the Garner Collection, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1964, no. 276.

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