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PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN OF TITLE

~*116 Compare to two similar vases, one from the Baur Collection, illustrated by
John Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1969,
A GUAN-TYPE TRILOBED DOUBLE-GOURD-FORM VASE no. 270 (A336), and the other in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE illustrated by He Li in Chinese Ceramics. A New Standard Guide, London,
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) 1996, pl. 521. Two other related examples of similar form and colour but
with distinct crackles in the glaze have been published: one illustrated by
The vase is well potted in the form of three conjoined double-gourds, with the Geng Baochang in Ming Qing ciqi jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 446, and
three-lobed body rising to the conforming necks, applied overall with a pale the other formerly in the Meiyintang Collection and sold at Sotheby’s Hong
greyish-blue glaze sufused with faint broad crackles. The short trefoil foot is Kong, 7 April 2011, lot 34.
dressed with a brown wash.
7Ω in. (18.8 cm.) high 清乾隆 仿官釉三孔葫蘆瓶 六字篆書款
來源：英國貴族珍藏；購自1950年前並由家族珍藏至今
£20,000-40,000 $26,000-50,000
€24,000-46,000

PROVENANCE

From the collection of an English gentleman of title. Acquired prior to the
1950s and thence by descent within the family.

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