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七 37. A Chinese imperial porcelain, ge-type, square vase of cong form, zongshi ping, with gently flared cylindrical neck and short everted

foot, moulded on each facet with the eight trigrams and covered overall in a rich and even ge-crackled glaze, the foot rim dressed
御 brown in veneration of the Song dynasty original.
製
仿 11 ¼ inches, 28.5 cm high.
哥 Six-character sealmark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.
釉 Wood stand.

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式 • Formerly in a private Texan collection, acquired by a U.S. civil-affairs officer in Asia between 1945 and 1946, and thence by
瓶 descent.

• An identical vase is illustrated by Peter Y.K. Lam in Ethereal Elegance, Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing, The Huaihaitang

清 Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, no. 45, pp. 172/3; another is illustrated by Bo Gyllensvärd in
乾 Chinese Ceramics in The Carl Kempe Collection, no. 209, p. 79.
隆 • A Ming prototype in the Qing Court Collection is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of The Palace Museum,

《 Beijing, Monochrome Porcelain, volume 37, no. 199, p. 221.
大 • A pale celadon crackled vase of this form from the Song dynasty is illustrated in Porcelain of The National Palace Museum, Kuan
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Ware of the Sung Dynasty, pl. 8a, b and c, pp. 33/4.

乾 • Vase, ping, with crackled glaze, sui, form the rebus, suisui ping’an, ‘may you be safe and sound year after year’.

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