A GE-TYPE LOBED TRIPOD WASHER

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A GE-TYPE LOBED TRIPOD WASHER
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The washer is finely potted and modelled after a Song prototype with a broad flat base supported on three globular feet, rising to steep bracket-lobed sides with a slightly everted rim. The washer is covered in a grey glaze with a web of fine 'iron-wire' crackles. The underside of the base has sixteen spur marks.
9 in. (22.8 cm.) wide

Provenance

E T Hall Collection, no. 265

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Lot Essay

Sometimes called 'bulb bowls', these tripod vessels were based on Song prototypes, such as the brushwashers in the Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Exhibition of Sung Dynasty Kuan Ware, 1989, nos. 135-143.

A ge-type tripod vessel of this mallow blossom form, also with a Qianlong seal mark, was included in the exhibItion, Important Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 2-14 June 1993, no. 62.

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