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A SMALL ‘GUAN’-TYPE FACETED HU-FORM VASE During the Qianlong emperor’s reign, vases and other vessels imitating
Qianlong sealmark and of the period the ‘Five Great Song Wares’ were made. The present example is
Of rectangular section with canted corners, the pear-shaped body, covered with a thick, pale-gray crackled glaze and dressed brown on
rising from a short slightly tapered foot to a wide mouth, flanked by the bottom of the foot pad in order to imitate Song Guan wares.
a pair of tubular handles, applied overall with a thick pale gray glaze
suffused with a dark gray crackle, the unglazed bottom of the footring A similar Qianlong mark and period vase in the collection of the
dressed with iron over the pale gray body, the foot inscribed with the National Palace Museum is illustrated in Qing Monochrome Porcelain,
six-character seal mark in underglaze blue. Taipei, 1981, cat. no. 89; and another is illustrated by John Ayers, The
5 3/4in (14.6cm) high Baur Collection, Geneva, vol. III, 1972, no. A344. Another Qianlong
mark and period example of identical size was sold at Christie’s Hong
US$20,000 - 30,000 Kong, 30 November 2011, lot 3317, and another at Sotheby’s Hong
Kong, 06 April 2016, lot 3638.
清乾隆 仿官釉八方貫耳壺 《大清乾隆年製》款

Provenance
Collection of Eugene Lee, a U.S. Diplomat who served in the Far East,
acquired circa 1920, and thence by descent (by repute)

來源
據藏家，美國外交官Eugene Lee珍藏，約1920年得於遠東, 後由家族
成員繼承

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