QIANLONG CYCLICAL WUCHEN MARK CORRESPONDING TO 1748 AND OF THE PERIOD

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AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED GILT-DECORATED CELADON-GLAZED MELON-FORM JARLET
QIANLONG CYCLICAL WUCHEN MARK CORRESPONDING TO 1748 AND OF THE PERIOD
The small jar is finely potted with ribbed sides in the shape of a melon and inscribed in gilt with an imperial poem, all below a band of stylised ruyi-heads to the shoulder and a band of upright lappets enclosing the foot rim.
3 3⁄8 in. (8.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Sold at Christie's London, 6 November 2012, lot 275

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Lot Essay

The Imperial poem inscribed on the present jarlet is recorded in Siku Quanshu (The Complete Library of the Four Treasures). For a blue-ground wall-vase with kui-dragons with the same calligraphic poem; and another pair of wall-vases with the same poem decorated with iron-red kui-dragons, see Poem and Porcelain: The Yu Zhi Shi Ceramics in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2016, p. 170, no. 52 and p. 88, no. 61.

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