Lot 36: A FINE GUAN-TYPE HEXAGONAL TWO-HANDLED VASE Mid-Late Qing Dynasty

A FINE
GUAN-TYPE HEXAGONAL TWO-HANDLED VASE

Mid-Late Qing Dynasty

Of baluster shape, the faceted slightly tapering body rising from a short spreading foot below a steeply sloping waisted neck flanked by simple lug handles, all under a widely-spaced, gray and brown crackled, transparent pale gray-beige glaze.


8 1/8in (20.6cm) high.

Generally, in excellent overall condition. Minute kiln adhesion at the foot underside but unobtrusive. Recommended.

清中晚期 仿官釉雙耳六方瓶



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源：

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約

會費購藏，1879 年

大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今



A small octagonal paper label to the base written in red ink reads '428 Chien Lung', presumably a collector's or dealer's label.



Compare with a related Guan-type hexagonal vase, 18th century, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 May 2019, lot 342.



For a Jiaqing marked octagonal vase of similar type though without the elongated neck and handles, see Peter Y. K. Lam (ed.),
Ethereal Elegance, Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing, The Huaihaitang Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008, pp.156-157, no.37.

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