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A LARGE GUAN-TYPE QUATREFOIL MOON FLASK
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
(1723-1735)

清雍正 仿官釉海棠式抱月瓶 六字篆書款

The moon fask is applied to the neck with two scroll handles, and is covered in a glaze of bluish-grey
tone sufused with a light network of crackles, stopping neatly around the foot and at small areas of the
extremities to reveal the dark grey body.

19æ in. (50.4 cm) high

£80,000-120,000 $130,000-180,000
€110,000-160,000

PROVENANCE:

The Collection of Sir Harry (1891-1977) and Lady Garner.
The Collection of Professor E.T. (Teddy) Hall (1924-2001), no. 274.

EXHIBITED:

Exhibition of Ju and Kuan Wares: Imperial Wares of the Sung Dynasty, Related Wares and Derivatives of Later
Date, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 12 Nov - 13 Dec 1952, no. 120.

It is very rare to fnd guan-type glazed vases of this shape and size, although comparable vases with
ge-type glaze are known. Compare a ge-type example sold AT Christie’s London, 15 July 1981, lot 45,
and illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial History, London, 1984, p. 218, no. 1; and another, sold
at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 707. Compare also a large Yongzheng-marked ge-type
vase of archaic hu shape included in the exhibition, Qingdai Danse You Ciqi, ‘Qing Dynasty Monochrome
Wares’, National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in the catalogue, 1981, p. 139, no. 82.

A Ge-type moonfask of the same form was sold in Christies Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot 3274.

來源: 英國私人藏家Garner爵士（1891-1977）伉儷珍藏；英國私人藏家E.T.
Hall （1924-2001）舊藏， 第274號
展覽：倫敦東方陶瓷學會，1952年11月12日至12月13日，《Ju and Kuan
Wares: Imperial Wares of the Sung Dynasty， Related Wares and Derivatives of Later
Date》，第120號

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