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VARIOUS PROPERTIES 1364
1364 1365
A RARE PAIR OF GE-TYPE A RARE CELADON-GLAZED FIVE-NECKED VASE
CONG-FORM VASES QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE The heavily potted vase of square section is raised on a spreading circular foot and the sides
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) are molded with three sets of ribbed bands below the four small tubular necks that rise from
the corners of the shoulder to surround the large central neck. The vase is covered overall
Each heavily potted vase is molded in the with a glaze of soft sea-green color.
shape of a cong and covered overall with
a pale greyish-white glaze sufused with 10¬ in. (27 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
a network of golden crackle. The foot is
covered with a dark brown dressing. $40,000-60,000
13¡ in. (34 cm.) high (2) A nearly identical celadon-glazed fve-necked cong-form vase of similar size (27.2 cm.)
$40,000-60,000 dated to the Yongzheng period in the collection of the National Palace Museum is illustrated
in Catalog of the Special Exhibition of K’ang-Hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch’ien-lung Porcelain Ware
PROVENANCE from the Ch’ing Dynasty in The National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, no. 64.
Private collection, South Carolina. 清乾隆 粉青釉五孔弦紋琮式瓶 六字篆書款
清乾隆 仿哥釉琮式瓶一對 六字篆書款
