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Lot 294

A Guan-type vase, hu
18th/19th century

13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £8,000

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A Guan-type vase, hu

18th/19th century
Modelled after the archaic bronze prototpe, the compressed globular body decorated with three bands of double ridges, rising to the waisted neck and galleried rim, the shoulders applied with a pair of mythical-beast-mask loop handles, covered overall with crackles under a pale blue glaze stopping short of the foot ring.
29.6cm (11⅝in) high.

Footnotes

Provenance: A European private collection

The form and ribbed design of the present vase is based on Warring States prototypes, as illustrated in Bronzes in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1999, pls.279 and 318, whilst the glaze is inspired by the Southern Song Dynasty Guan glaze. Porcelain vessels inspired by archaic forms and Song Dynasty glazes were produced during the Ming Dynasty and again during the 18th century and later, particularly during the Yongzheng and Qianlong Emperor's reigns. For a related Ru-type glazed vase with a Yongzheng seal mark and of the period, see P.Y.K.Lam, ed., Ethereal Elegance: Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing: the Huaihaitang Collection, 2007, pl.19.

Compare a larger related Guan-type glazed vase, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong on 11 April 2008, lot 2988.

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