YONGZHENG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A RARE CELADON-GLAZED HEXAGONAL VASE
YONGZHENG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The elegant, attenuated pear-shaped body molded with six subtly fluted facets that rise from the flared foot cut with slits at two corners, the neck flanked by a pair of ear-shaped handles, covered allover with an opaque glaze of soft blue-green color
10 3/8 in. (26.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Christie's East, New York, 17 January 1996, lot 401.

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Lot Essay

A celadon-glazed vase of this very unusual shape with an unusual Qianlong mark, and of slightly smaller size (25.2 cm. high) in the Wang Xing Lou Collection is illustrated in Imperial Perfection: The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Hong Kong, 2003, pp. 186-7, no. 69. Compare, also, the Yongzheng-marked Ru-type vase of very similar shape and of approximately the same size, from the J.M. Hu Family Collection, offered at Sotheby's, New York, 4 June 1985, lot 56.

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