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A GUAN-TYPE MALLET VASE 清雍正 仿官釉紙槌瓶 六字篆書款
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE
BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) 來源:
R. G. Hill，Merrydown Cottage，Wray Lane，英國薩里郡賴
With slightly tapering cylindrical body rising to an angled shoulder below the tall
蓋特市，1966年6月。
cylindrical neck surmounted by a galleried mouth rim, covered with a greenish-blue glaze
Bluett & Sons，倫敦，1966年10月14日。
suffused with a golden-brown crackle, the foot rim covered with a black wash
詹姆斯及瑪麗蓮·阿爾斯多夫珍藏，芝加哥。
6Ω in. (16.5 cm.) high
$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE:
R. G. Hill, Merrydown Cottage, Wray Lane, Reigate, Surrey, June 1966.
Bluett & Sons, London, 14 October 1966.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

The beauty of Song-dynasty glazes was greatly admired by the emperors of the Qing
dynasty, and the potters at the imperial Jingdezhen kilns were charged with the task
of reproducing these glazes on porcelain. The glaze seen on this elegantly potted vase
is an interpretation of Guan ware, one of the most highly sought after and treasured
wares of the Song dynasty. The mallet shape is also based on Song-dynasty prototypes,
such as the Longquan celadon ‘kinuta’ vase, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279), sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 November 2018, lot 8007.

Other Song-dynasty inspired glazes on mallet-shaped vases were emulated during the
Yongzheng reign. A Ge-type example with straight neck, Yongzheng six-character seal
mark and of the period, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 November 2013, lot
3201, and another is illustrated by Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe
Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 75, no. 194.

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