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

Details

A GE-TYPE VASE, FANGHU
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Of rectangular section, the vase strongly potted in archaic hu form, subtly moulded on the front and back with peach-shaped panels, the broad neck set with a pair of rectangular tubular handles, the mouth rim and neck with canted corners, covered overall with a thick grey glaze suffused with a network of dark grey craquelure and finer golden crackles
12 1/4 in. (31 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Previously sold at Christie's Paris, 19 November 2003, lot 267; and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2005, lot 1513
A Japanese private collection

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Lot Essay

Archaism as a major theme in the crafts of the Qing dynasty is represented two-fold on the present lot. The hu shape is derived from early bronze wares of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, while the glaze that is an imitation of the Southern Song dynasty imperial Geyao glaze. Compare the present vase with its Song prototype, a small Guan with canted corners in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, Japan, 1981, vol. 9, Japan, 1987, no. 960.

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