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A FINE AND RARE GE-TYPE GLAZED CONG-
FORM VASE

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each side of the square-sectioned vase is moulded with the Eight
Trigrams, covered overall with a greyish-blue glaze suffused with
dark grey and light golden crackles, the foot dressed brown.
11 ¿ in. (28.2 cm.) high

HK$600,000-800,000
US$78,000-100,000

PROVENANCE

Acquired by a U.S. Civil Affairs Officer
in Asia between 1945-1946 and thence by
descent within the family
A private Texan collection
Sold at Sotheby’s New York,
12 September 2012, lot 251

An almost identical vase is illustrated by
Peter Y.K. Lam in Ethereal Elegance, Porcelain
Vases of the Imperial Qing, The Huaihaitang
Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, no. 45, pp. 172-
3; another is illustrated by Bo Gyllensvärd
in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempte
Collection, no. 209, p. 79; another identical
vase is illustrated by Titus M. Eliens in
Imperial Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum,
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2001, no. 78,
pp. 112-3. Compare also a vase of similar form
and glaze sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 4
October 2016, lot 154.

清乾隆 哥釉琮式瓶

六字篆書款

來源
由美軍文職官員在 1945 至 1946 年間購
於亞洲，後於家族中流傳
德克薩斯州私人收藏
紐約蘇富比，2012 年 9 月 12 日，
拍品 251 號

可參照懷海堂珍藏的一件乾隆款哥釉琮式瓶，
見香港中文大學 2007 年出版《機暇清賞：懷
海堂藏清代御窰瓷缾》，編號 45 以及卡爾坎
普舊藏一件，著錄於 Bo Gyllensvärd，《Chinese
Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection》，編號
209。亦可比較一例於香港蘇富比 2016 年 10
月 4 日拍賣，拍品 154 號。

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