Lot 3274
3274
A LARGE GE-TYPE GLAZED QUATREFOIL MOONFLASK
A LARGE GE-TYPE GLAZED QUATREFOIL MOONFLASK
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A LARGE GE-TYPE GLAZED QUATREFOIL MOONFLASK

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

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A LARGE GE-TYPE GLAZED QUATREFOIL MOONFLASK
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The sturdily potted moonflask with moulded lobed sides is flanked on either side of the shoulder with a pair of stylised scroll-handles joined to the tall quatrefoil neck and raised on a conforming short quatrefoil splayed foot. It is covered overall with a pale grey glaze suffused with a fine network of black and golden crackle falling to the edge of the foot to expose the pale grey ware bearing traces of a black dressing.
20 1/2 in. (52 cm.) high, box

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Lot Essay

A comparable vase of this shape and size was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 707. Examples of large vessels were made during the Qing dynasty in reverence to earlier Song period glazes; for a large Yongzheng-marked ge-type vase of archaic hu-shape included in the exhibition, Qingdai Danse You Ciqi, 'Qing Dynasty Monochrome Wares', National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in the Catalogue, 1981, p. 139, no. 82.

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