YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The present vase is of slender ovoid form, applied on either side with strap handles with ruyi-head terminals, covered in a thick pale greyish glaze suffused with black and brown crackles.

From the Kangxi period, potters at Jingdezhen experimented with the simulation of Song dynasty Ge wares, and perfected it in the Yongzheng period. Compare with a Ge-type square vase bearing a Yongzheng mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing, recorded in the Selection of Ge Ware: the Palace Museum Collection and Archaeological Discoveries, Beijing, 2017, p.276, no.135; and a flask sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2023, lot 3069.