QIANLONG IMPRESSED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINE SOFT-PASTE CRACKLE-GLAZED ARCHAISTIC VASE
QIANLONG IMPRESSED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase is finely potted with gracefully curving sides rising from a spreading foot to sharp shoulders and a slender neck, flaring at the mouth before sharply inverting. The lower body is impressed and incised with bands of keyfret, pendent archaistic leaves and upright lappets, with taotie masks and archaistic scroll motifs above the angled shoulder and a double band of circles and upright lappets around the neck. The inverted mouth is incised with classic scrolls. The vase is entirely covered in an ivory glaze suffused with crackles, the unglazed foot revealing the smooth white body.
8 1/8 in. (20.5 cm.) high, box

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Lot Essay

The precise and crisply moulded decorative motifs on this vase are clearly influenced by earlier archaic bronze vessels, created to satisfy the Emperor Qianlong's keen interest in archaism. A vase of identical size and design, from the Robert Chang Collection, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 October 2000, lot 802. Another identical vase is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics from the Koger Collection, 1985, no. 140. For a Yongzheng-marked vase of identical shape but with slightly differing decoration, refer to the example illustrated by Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Vol. 2, 1999, pl. 307 (A421).

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