GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER INCISED MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

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A FLAMBÉ-GLAZED FACETED HU-FORM VASE
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER INCISED MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
The vase is molded on the two broad sides with a large peach-shaped panel, has rectangular lug handles on the narrow sides, and is covered with a glaze of dark crushed-strawberry-red color draining to mushroom in various areas, which continues over the rim to the interior. The base has been left in the biscuit.
11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the similarly glazed, Guangxu-marked vase of this shape, but without the peach-shaped panels, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 37 - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 207, no. 186. As with the present vase, the mark is inscribed in the biscuit of the unglazed base

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