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A GEYAO CRACKLED-GLAZED TWO-HANDLED VASE, HU AN UNDERGLAZE-COPPER-RED AND ENAMELED PORCELAIN
Underglaze-blue six-character Yongzheng seal mark, late WATER POT
Qing Dynasty Kangxi six-character under-glaze-blue mark but later
Of rectangular section and pear shape, with molded bow-string lines at The tapering, globular body with short neck and lipped rim, finely
three points on the body and dividing simple lug handles on the narrow decorated with two blossoming rose branches rising from the
sides beneath a lipped rim. countersunk base, each bearing a large under-glaze copper-red bloom
12 1/4in (31.1cm) high of deep tone, the supporting branches picked out in a lime-green
enamel with the leaves in a more turquoise green and all outlined in a
$2,000 - 4,000 black enamel, the base with a Kangxi mark.
3 1/2in (8.9cm) high
清晚期 哥窯貫耳壺 《大清雍正年製》款
$1,800 - 2,500
For a similar-sized Yongzheng-marked precursor of Ru or Guan-type
and hu-shape, see Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 23 October 2005, lot 319. 釉里紅牡丹紋小罐 《大清康熙年製》款

Compare also to a Yongzheng precursor of this shape covered in a Kangxi water pots of this type exist in a number of museum
ge-type glaze, illustrated in The Special Exhibition of K’ang-hsi, Yung- collections, including one in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated
cheng and Ch’ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch’ing Dynasty in the in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 40, no. 23;
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, no. 63. another illustrated by John Ayers in The Baur Collection, vol. IV,
Geneva, 1974, no. A 539; and in the Percival David Foundation,
This form of vase reflects the Yongzheng Emperor’s deep interest in Catalogue, section 3, no. B702.
archaism. The crackled celadon glaze is the outcome of the attempt to
reproduce the lustrous glaze found on ge wares made for the Southern
Song (AD 1127-1279) court, while its shape is modelled after that of
archaic bronze vessels of the Zhou Dynasty (C.1100-256 BCE).
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