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

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A GUAN-TYPE HEXAGONAL VASE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The attenuated pear-shaped body is molded with six subtly fluted facets that rise from the flared foot cut with slits at two corners. The neck is flanked by a pair of ear-shaped handles, and the vase is covered allover with an opaque glaze of soft bluish-grey color suffused with a faint pattern of clear and light brown crackle.
11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Virginia Dellinger, Washington, D.C., 1960s.

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Lot Essay

A slightly smaller vase of similar shape, but with a celadon glaze and an unusual Qianlong mark, in the Wang-Xing Lou Collection, is illustrated in Imperial Perfection: The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Hong Kong, 2003, pp. 186-87, no. 69.
Another vase of similar shape, also with a similar Yongzheng mark, was sold at Christie's New York, 23 March 2012, lot 2102.
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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