A GUAN-TYPE GLAZED VASE, CONG

The Property of a Private Japanese Collector

细节

A GUAN-TYPE GLAZED VASE, CONG
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Copying a Song prototype, the rectangular sides moulded with trigrams between the circular foot and mouth, covered with a thick pale grey glaze suffused with a network of dark grey and pale brown crackles
11 1/4 in. (28.5 cm.) high, stand, box

拍品专文

Cf. similar examples of this archaistic vase, one from the Edward T. Chow Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 503; one from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, included in the Hoyt Memorial Exhibition, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 469; and another exhibited at the National Museum of History, Taipei, Chinese Ceramics of Eight Dynasties, 1987, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 75. The shape and glaze of this vase are based on Southern Song guanyao prototypes, such as the vase illustrated in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 1993, p. 297 (bottom right).