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1972.43-34 (C-589)

Vase

Qing dynasty, mid/late nineteenth century
Porcelain with rose red glaze, 15.2 x 10.1 (6 x 4)
Harry G. Steele Collection, Gift of Grace C. Steele

INSCRIPTIONS
Spuriously inscribed in seal script on the base in overglaze red
enamel in three columns of two characters each: Da Qing
Qianlong nian zhi [made in the Qianlong reign of the great
Qing dynasty]
TECHNICAL NOTES
The interior has a colorless glaze and the recessed base is glazed
white. The foot-ring has been ground down; the glaze surface
above the foot on the exterior has also been slightly ground.
PROVENANCE
Harry G. Steele [1881-1941], Pasadena; his widow, Grace C. Steele.

INELY POTTED WITH THIN WALLS, this vase is glazed with
Fan opaque and mottled glaze known in China as
yanzhi shui. At the center of the base is an overglaze iron
red enamel mark of the Qianlong reign in seal script.
This mark can be judged to be spurious, however, on the
basis of the wavering lines and errors in the individual
strokes of the characters long and zhi. 1
SL

NOTES
i. Compare the authentic Qianlong marks illustrated in
Garner 1970, Appendix B.

foot-ring and reignmark
on base of 1972.43.34

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