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PROPERTY OF A HONG KONG COLLECTOR 清乾隆 仿哥釉貫耳六方壺
《大清乾隆年製》款
A FINE GE-TYPE HEXAGONAL VASE, HU
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG 來源：
傳日本私人收藏
of sturdily potted hexagonal section, the shouldered body 香港蘇富比2009年4月8日，編號1651
sitting on a splayed foot and rising to a waisted neck flanked by
a pair of tubular handles, covered overall with a thick soft grey
glaze suffused with an irregular network of black crackling and
golden threads, the glaze stopping neatly at the footring, the
base inscribed with the six-character seal mark in underglaze
blue
29.1 cm, 11½ in.

PROVENANCE

A Japanese private collection, by repute.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8th April 2009, lot 1651.

HK$ 1,800,000-2,800,000
US$ 232,000-361,000

Although several Qianlong vases of this shape are found in
teadust glaze or decorated in underglaze blue, the present
Ge-type piece is extremely rare and no other example appears
to have been published. For the inspiration of this vase, see a
larger Yongzheng Guan-type vase in the Qing court collection,
and still in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong
Kong, 1999, pl. 204; and two examples sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 26th April 2004, lot 1052 and 28th November 2005, lot
1316.

A Qianlong vase of this shape and size, but with a teadust
glaze, formerly in the Hall Family Collection and included in the
Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford, 1988, was sold in these rooms, 2nd May
2000, lot 556; and a larger example in the Idemitsu Collection,
Tokyo, is published in Chinese Ceramics from the Idemitsu
Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 965. Compare also a large Qianlong
reign-marked moulded celadon-glazed vase of this form,
included in the exhibition Ethereal Elegance. Porcelain Vases
of the Imperial Qing. The Huaihaitang Collection, Art Museum,
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2007, cat. no.
50; and a blue and white decorated example in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty. The
Official Kiln Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, pl.
238.

Mark
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