Lot 3323
3323
A FINE AND RARE GE-TYPE GLAZED CONG-FORM VASE
A FINE AND RARE GE-TYPE GLAZED CONG-FORM VASE
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A FINE AND RARE GE-TYPE GLAZED CONG-FORM VASE

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINE AND RARE GE-TYPE GLAZED CONG-FORM VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each side of the square-sectioned vase is moulded with the Eight Trigrams, covered overall with a greyish-blue glaze suffused with dark grey and light golden crackles, the foot dressed brown.
11 1/8 in. (28.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired by a U.S. Civil Affairs Officer in Asia between 1945-1946 and thence by descent within the family
A private Texan collection
Sold at Sotheby's New York, 12 September 2012, lot 251

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Lot Essay

An almost identical vase is illustrated by Peter Y.K. Lam in Ethereal Elegance, Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing, The Huaihaitang Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, no. 45, pp. 172-3; another is illustrated by Bo Gyllensvard in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempte Collection, no. 209, p. 79; another identical vase is illustrated by Titus M. Eliens in Imperial Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2001, no. 78, pp. 112-3. Compare also a vase of similar form and glaze sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 4 October 2016, lot 154.

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