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A MOLDED CRACKLE-GLAZED
TRIPLE-SPOUTED DOUBLE GOURD
VASE
QING DYNASTY, DAOGUANG PERIOD

vertically divided into three undulating lobes,
each rising to a slender columnar neck and
covered in a pale bluish-grey crackled glaze,
the double gourd cinched at the waist with a
molded ribbon painted with a fret diaper ground
in underglaze-blue, the trefoil foot ring applied
with a dark wash, the recessed base similarly
crackle-glazed and with a four-character
hallmark in iron red reading Shendetang zhi
Height 12½ in., 31.8 cm
Compare a Daoguang period ge-type lobed
and elongated ‘pomegranate’ vase, with a
Shendetang hallmark on the base and the
footring similarly applied with a dark wash,
in the collection of the Shanghai Museum,
illustrated in Zhou Lili, Shanghai bowuguan
cangpin yanjiu daxi: Qingdai Yongzheng-
Xuantong guanyao ciqi / Qing Dynasty Official
Wares from the Yongzheng to Xuantong Reigns,
Shanghai, 2014, pl. 5-19.
Vases of this form became popular in the
Qianlong period and continued to be made
throughout the 19th century. See a pair of
celadon-glazed famille-rose vases of similar
form and with the molded ribbon painted with
the same ket fret diaper ground, attributed
to the 19th century, sold in these rooms 18th
March 2014, lot 492. A robin’s egg-glazed
example with a molded gilt ribbon sold in these
rooms, 24th April 1975, lot 396. For a Qianlong
seal mark and period crackle guan-type glazed
vase of this form, without the ribbon, see one
illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics
from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London,
1994, pl. 876.

$ 30,000-50,000

清道光 仿哥釉青花包袱式三孔
葫蘆甁
《慎德堂製》款

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