A FINE GE-TYPE GLAZED CYLINDRICAL VASE

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A FINE GE-TYPE GLAZED CYLINDRICAL VASE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Potted in cylindrical form of Song period prototype, the sides gently tapering to the low flat foot, the body moulded with evenly divided horizontal raised bands from the shoulder to the foot, the short waisted neck with lipped rim and wide mouth, applied overall with an unctuous grey-green glaze irregularly suffused with black and rust-coloured crackles, the reign mark written in underglaze blue on the underside base
7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Previously sold at Sotheby's London, 10 December 1985, lot 261
Greenwald Collection, no. 47

Literature

Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, Catalogue, no. 47

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Lot Essay

A small group of Yongzheng-marked 'ribbed' vases are recorded, cf. an identical vase of this size and glaze from the Carl Kempe Collection sold at Sotheby's Paris, 12 June 2008, lot 102; and a slightly larger vase of Guan-type glaze (26.2 cm. high) is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, no. p. 163, no. 269 (A335). Compare also the Song prototypes from which the Qing examples imitate, illustrated in Kuan Ware of the Sung Dynasty, Porcelain of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, CAFA, 1963, pls. 12 (see fig. 1) and 13; the present vase is of the same height as the two Song examples.

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