A FINE AND RARE GE-TYPE VASE, HU

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A FINE AND RARE GE-TYPE VASE, HU
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The heavily potted vase of compressed baluster form set on a wide splayed foot, applied with twin fixed-ring ram's head handles at the shoulder rising to a waisted neck and flared rim, covered all over in an unctuous creamy pale celadon glaze suffused with a characteristic fine network of dark and light crackles, the foot neatly cut with grooves either side of the brown biscuit
11 3/8 in. (28.8 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

The Asukai Family Collection, Japan

Lot Essay

Ge-type vases of this particular form appear to be very rare. Compare to a Qianlong-marked similarly glazed hu vase of more elongated form but with the same handles formerly in the E.T. Hall Collection of Monochrome Porcelain, sold in our London Rooms, 7 June 2004, lot 145.

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