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A GUAN-TYPE TRILOBED DOUBLE-GOURD-FORM VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-
1795)

The vase is well potted in the form of three conjoined double-gourds rising from the three-lobed body to
the conforming necks, applied overall with a pale greyish-blue glaze sufused with faint broad crackles.
The short trefoil foot is dressed with a brown wash.
7Ω in. (18.8 cm.) high

£20,000-40,000 $29,000-56,000
€26,000-50,000

PROVENANCE: 60 (mark)

From the collection of an English gentleman of title. Acquired prior to the 1950s and thence by descent
within the family.

Compare to two similar vases, one from the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers in Chinese
Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1969, no. 270 (A336), and the other in the Asian Art
Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li in Chinese Ceramics. A New Standard Guide, London,
1996, pl. 521. Two other related examples of similar form and colour but with distinct crackles in the
glaze have been published: one illustrated by Geng Baochang in Ming Qing ciqi jianding, Hong Kong,
1993, no. 446, and the other formerly in the Meiyintang Collection and sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7
April 2011, lot 34.

清乾隆 仿官釉三孔葫蘆瓶 六字篆書款

來源: 英國貴族私人珍藏，購自1950年代以前並由家族繼承至今

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