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A GUAN-TYPE HANDLED VASE, FANGHU 清乾隆 仿官釉貫耳方壺
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
《大清乾隆年製》款
of rectangular section, the sturdily potted pear-shaped
body sweeping up to a gently flared neck flanked by a pair 展覽
of angular lug handles, all supported on a splayed foot
centred with an elongated aperture on each of the shorter 《中國名陶日本巡迴展•港台名家收藏陶瓷精品》，
sides, covered overall save for the footring with an even pale 日本橋高島屋，東京，1992年，第224頁
greyish-blue glaze with faint crackles, the base inscribed in
underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark
Height 27.3 cm, 10¾ in.

EXHIBITED
Zhongguo mingtao riben xunhui zhan. Gangtai mingjia
shoucang taoci jingpin [Exhibition of Famous Chinese
Ceramics Touring Japan. Fine Ceramics from Private Hong
Kong and Taiwanese Collections], Nihonbashi Takashimaya,
Tokyo, 1992, p. 224.
‡ £ 150,000-200,000

While the form is derived originally from Shang and Zhou
dynasty metal prototypes, the thick lustrous glaze and
brown-washed footring of the present vase are evocative
of Song dynasty ceramic renderings of the earlier form,
especially guan ware, much admired by the Qianlong
Emperor.
A similar example in the National Palace Museum in
Taipei is published in the Illustrated Catalogue of the
Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum
Ch’ien-lung Ware and Other Wares, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 82;
another example in the collection in the Art Gallery,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
was included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain
of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Hong
Kong, 1995, cat. no. 63; and two other vases, one with
a crackled and the other with a plain guan-type glaze,
are published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from
the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, pls 874
and 875. A smaller pair is illustrated in Qing Imperial
Monochromes The Zande Lou Collection, Art Museum
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2005,
pl. 32.

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