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A GUAN-TYPE BOTTLE VASE

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase has a compressed body, tall neck and slightly faring mouth, and is covered overall in a pale blue glaze sufused
with a network of fne golden crackle which continues into the interior and on the base, and the foot has a dark brown
dressing.
7¬ in. (19.4 cm.) high

$20,000-30,000

Compare the vase of this shape with Qianlong mark and a Ru-type glaze illustrated in Qing Imperial Monochromes: The
Zande Lou Collection, Hong Kong, 2005, no. 28. Another Qianlong-marked vase of this shape, with a Ge-type glaze,
was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 20 May 1986, lot 83. Rather than the golden crackle of the Guan-type glaze of the
present vase, the pale ash-grey glaze of this vase has dark-stained crackle. The Guan-type glaze can also be seen on a
taller (21.9 cm.) vase of this shape, with Yongzheng mark, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 May 2009, lot 1888. Like the
present vase, these three vases also have a dark dressing on the foot, in imitation of Song-dynasty monochrome wares.
Vases of this shape with their Song-style glazes were likely inspired by Song-dynasty prototypes, such as the Southern
Song Guanyao vase in the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, vol. 5, Tokyo,
1981, col. pl. 24.
清乾隆 仿官釉荸薺瓶 六字篆書款

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