A FINE AND RARE OCTAGONAL RU-TYPE LOBED VASE
A FINE AND RARE OCTAGONAL RU-TYPE LOBED VASE

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A FINE AND RARE OCTAGONAL RU-TYPE LOBED VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

Of lobed foliate section, the compressed spherical body on a high, slightly splayed foot and surmounted by a tall ribbed neck below an everted rim, covered in a pale smoky greyish-blue glaze with a fine crackle
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Lot Essay

Compare a similar vase from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1986, no. 102. Another from the San Francisco Asian Art Museum is illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, London, 1996, pl. 523. A pair of similar vases from the J.M. Hu Collection, now in the Shanghai Museum are illstutrated in Selected Ceramics form the J.M. Hu Collection, Shanghai, 1989, p. 109. no. 72; another single example from the E.T. Hall Collection, no. 262, was sold in our London Rooms, The E.T. Hall Collection of Chinese Monochrome Porcelains, 7 June 2004, lot 148. Compare also a Jiaqing example in the Meiyintang Collection illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, p. 221, no. 881.

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