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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 清乾隆 仿官釉三連葫蘆尊
A GUAN-TYPE TRIPLE-SPOUTED ‘DOUBLE- 《大清乾隆年製》款
GOURD’ VASE
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG 來源：
南美洲私人收藏
of three-lobed double-gourd form, skilfully potted with the
lower bulb rising from a trefoil foot to a slender waisted neck 紐約蘇富比1996年3月26日，編號191
surmounted by the smaller upper bulb tapering to three
tubular spouts, covered overall in a lustrous pale greyish-green
glaze suffused with fine crackles, inscribed to the base with a
six-character seal mark
20.6 cm, 8⅛ in.
PROVENANCE
A South American private collection.
Sotheby’s New York, 26th March 1996, lot 191.
HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 104,000-155,000

Similar triple vases with finely shaped trefoil feet are known
covered with various greenish glazes inspired by Song dynasty
glazes. A vase of this form with a crackled glaze, described
as ‘sky-blue’, is illustrated in Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi
jianding [Appraisal of Ming and Qing Porcelain], Hong Kong,
1993, pl. 446; one without the distinct decorative crackles, in
the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated in He Li,
Chinese Ceramics. A New Standard Guide, London, 1996, pl.
521; another is published in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in
the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, pl. 270; two others were
sold in our London rooms, 26th April 1966, lot 163 and 164;
and a vase, from the Meiyintang Collection, was sold in these
rooms, 7th June 2011, lot 34. See a further example sold in
these rooms, 5th October 2016, lot 3646.
For the prototype of this form, see a Yongzheng mark and
period example, from the Hershel V. Johnson Collection, sold
in our London rooms, 21st February 1967, lot 61.

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