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A FLAMBÉ-GLAZED FACETED HU-FORM
2178 VASE
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER INCISED MARK AND
42 OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

The vase is molded on the two broad
sides with a large peach-shaped panel, has
rectangular lug handles on the narrow sides,
and is covered with a glaze of dark crushed-
strawberry-red color draining to mushroom
in various areas, which continues over the
rim to the interior. The base has been left in
the biscuit.
11¬ in. (29.5 cm.) high

$12,000-18,000

Compare the similarly glazed, Guangxu-marked
vase of this shape, but without the peach-
shaped panels, in the Qing Court Collection,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum - 37 -
Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p.
207, no. 186. As with the present vase, the
mark is inscribed in the biscuit of the unglazed
base

清光緒 窯變釉貫耳方壺
六字楷書刻款

2177 (mark)

2178
AN UNUSUAL DATED GILT-DECORATED
BLACK-GROUND AND COPPER-RED-
DECORATED CIRCULAR PLAQUE
DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE DINGSI YEAR OF
THE JIAQING PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 1797

The slightly recessed, black-glazed center is
painted in gilding with an imperial poem by
the Qianlong Emperor describing a good
harvest year, followed by a cyclical date dingsi
(1797) and two seals, Jia and Qing, all within
an outer border decorated in copper red
with fve bats (wufu) in fight amidst scrolling
clouds. The plaque is within a circular frame.
13¿ in. (33.3 cm.) diam. with frame, box

$6,000-8,000

清嘉慶丁巳年（1797）
黑地釉裏紅描金御製詩文圓瓷板