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A GE-TYPE FACETED PEAR-SHAPED FANGHU-FORM VASE The glaze on this rare vase is based on one of the 'Five famous wares of the
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD Song dynasty' - Ge ware. The other four famous wares are Ru, Guan, Ding
(1736-1795) and Jun. All five of these Song dynasty wares were greatly admired by the
emperors of the high Qing, and during the Yongzheng reign much research
Of faceted pear shape, the vase is molded in low relief on the two broad sides
with large peach-shaped panels and the neck with indented corners is flanked and development was undertaken in order to reproduce these glazes on
by a pair of rectangular lug handles. The vase is covered overall with a pale grey the porcelains made at the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen. Like his father, the
glaze suffused with dark grey ('iron wire') crackle suffuzed with a faint gold Qianlong emperor was fascinated by antiques and encouraged the craftsmen
('golden thread') crackle. working for the court to reproduce them. In some instances, he even had
pieces inscribed Qianlong fang gu (literally, ‘Qianlong copying the ancient’).
11√ in. (30 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
The Ge-type glaze on the current vase is especially successful, reproducing
$50,000-70,000 the close crackle and slight translucency of the glaze to very good effect.
Two Song dynasty hu-form vases which may have inspired the present vase,
PROVENANCE:
from the Qing Court Collection, are illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Private collection, Japan, 1960s. Treasures of the Palace Museum - 33 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong

Kong, 1996, p. 45, no. 39 (with a Ge glaze), and p. 113, no. 101 (Longquan
清乾隆 仿哥釉方壺 六字篆書款 ware, with a celadon glaze). Compare, also, the Qianlong fanghu-shaped Ge-
type vase, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Japan,
來源:
1987, no. 960.
私人珍藏, 日本, 1960年代。

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