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A RARE GUAN-TYPE QUADRUPLE VASE Inspired by song dynasty prototypes, vases of this charming
YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD and unusual form were an innovation of the Yongzheng
reign, and required craftsmen’s utmost attention in potting
finely potted as four vases of slender cylindrical form and firing. a slightly smaller vase of this type in the palace
with sides gently curving to a short neck and everted rim, museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Qingdai yuyao ciqi [Qing
conjoined at the sides, the bodies covered overall in a soft imperial porcelains], vol. 1, Beijing, 2005, pl. 149; two were
pale bluish-gray glaze suffused with a matrix of golden sold in our hong Kong rooms, the first, 24th may 1985, lot
crackles, the footring applied with dark brown dressing, each 503, and the second, 22nd may 1984, lot 185, and again,
base with one character of the four-character reign mark in 8th april 2011, lot 3002; and another from the collections of
underglaze-blue James W. and marilyn alsdorf and robert Chang, was sold
height 3⅞ in., 9.9 cm twice at Christie’s hong Kong, 23rd march 1993, lot 735, and
2nd november 1999, lot 524.
PROVENANCE
Vases of this form with Yongzheng marks and of the period,
Collection of samuel t. peters (d. 1921). are also known covered in other monochrome glazes: see
C.t. Loo, new York, 1951. a slightly larger vase with a ru-type glaze, in the national
Collection of stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
palace museum, taipei, included in the museum’s exhibition
Qing Monochrome Porcelain, taipei, 1981, cat. no. 77; a
celadon-glazed example from the J.m. hu Collection, sold
in these rooms, 4th June 1985, lot 40; and a slightly smaller
version covered in a teadust glaze, also sold in these rooms,
21st march 2018, lot 536.
$ 80,000-120,000

清雍正 仿官釉四聯瓶
《雍正年製》款
來源
Samuel T. Peters（1921年逝）收藏
盧芹齋，紐約，1951年
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

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