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Lot Essay
The elaborately potted vase is covered with an even crackled ge-type glaze, the collared neck terminates in a bulbous mouth with a pair of ribbon-like handles. Vases of this double-gourd form are also referred as shuangxi baozhuping, ‘double happiness precious pearl vase’ in Qing court archives.
According to an inventory list included in the palace archives, in the 12th month of 30th year of Guangxu reign (1904), ‘two ge-type shuangxi baozhuping with Yongzheng marks are stored in the Dongshun Shanfang’, very likely referring to ge-type double-gourd vase as the present one.
This form of double-gourd vases with handles first appeared during the Yongzheng period and can be found in a number of different glazes. Compare with a nearly identical vase also from E.T. Chow Collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 498. A closely related example is a Yongzheng celadon-glaze vase of same form in the Shanghai Museum (fig. 1); another example in blue and white and copper-red decorated is in the Nanjing museum, illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty – The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.128 (fig. 2); and a Yongzheng Ru-type one from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Selection of Ru Ware – the Palace Museum’s Collection and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2015, no.99 (fig. 3).
According to an inventory list included in the palace archives, in the 12th month of 30th year of Guangxu reign (1904), ‘two ge-type shuangxi baozhuping with Yongzheng marks are stored in the Dongshun Shanfang’, very likely referring to ge-type double-gourd vase as the present one.
This form of double-gourd vases with handles first appeared during the Yongzheng period and can be found in a number of different glazes. Compare with a nearly identical vase also from E.T. Chow Collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 498. A closely related example is a Yongzheng celadon-glaze vase of same form in the Shanghai Museum (fig. 1); another example in blue and white and copper-red decorated is in the Nanjing museum, illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty – The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.128 (fig. 2); and a Yongzheng Ru-type one from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Selection of Ru Ware – the Palace Museum’s Collection and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2015, no.99 (fig. 3).