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A SMALL GUAN-TYPE BOTTLE VASE 清乾隆 仿官窯小瓶 四字篆書款
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) 來源:蘇格蘭私人珍藏
The vase is covered overall with an unctuous pale grey glaze sufused with a
network of black crackle connected with thin pale crackle. The bottom of the
foot is covered with a brown wash.
4¿ in. (10.5 cm.) high
£10,000-20,000 $15,000-28,000
€12,000-23,000

Compare a small Ge-type bottle vase with a Qianlong four-character mark
illustrated in Ethereal Elegance, Porcelain Vases in the Imperial Qing, the
Huaihaitang Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007, no.48,
p 178. Similarly, compare with a guan-type small Qianlong mark and period
bottle vase from the same collection and illustrated in the same book, no.
36, p 154. A very similar but slightly smaller (10 cm. high) vase also with a
Qianlong four-character mark from the collection of Stephen Junkunc III was
sold at Christie’s New York, 19 March 2008, lot 633.
(mark)

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