A FINE AND RARE GE-TYPE VASE, HU

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