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A FINE GUAN-TYPE HEXAGONAL TWO-HANDLED VASE A small octagonal paper label to the base written in red ink reads ‘428
Mid-Late Qing Dynasty Chien Lung’, presumably a collector’s or dealer’s label.
Of baluster shape, the faceted slightly tapering body rising from a short
spreading foot below a steeply sloping waisted neck flanked by simple Compare with a related Guan-type hexagonal vase, 18th century,
lug handles, all under a widely-spaced, gray and brown crackled, which was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2019, lot 342.
transparent pale gray-beige glaze.
8 1/8in (20.6cm) high. For a Jiaqing marked octagonal vase of similar type though without the
elongated neck and handles, see Peter Y. K. Lam (ed.), Ethereal Elegance,
$4,000 - 6,000 Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing, The Huaihaitang Collection, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008, pp.156-157, no.37.
清中晚期 仿官釉雙耳六方瓶
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
Provenance:
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York
Purchase by subscription, 1879
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present

來源：
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約
會費購藏，1879 年
大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今 Detail: see p.16 (D)

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