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A GUAN-TYPE TRIPLE-SPOUTED 'DOUBLE-GOURD' VASE SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG | 清乾隆 仿官釉三連葫蘆尊 《大清乾隆年製》款
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October 9, 06:06 AM GMT
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Property from an Important Asian Collection
A GUAN-TYPE TRIPLE-SPOUTED 'DOUBLE-GOURD' VASE
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
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清乾隆 仿官釉三連葫蘆尊
《大清乾隆年製》款
of three-lobed double-gourd form, skilfully potted with the lower bulb rising from a trefoil foot to a slender waisted neck surmounted by the smaller upper bulb tapering t🦋o three tubular spouts, covered overall in a lustrous pale greyish-green𓄧 glaze suffused with fine crackles, inscribed to the base with a six-character seal mark
20.6 cm, 8 ⅛ in.
A South American private collection.
Sotheby's New York, 26th March 1996, lot 191.
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紐約蘇富比1996年3月26日，編號191
Similar triple vases with finely shaped trefoil feet are known covered with various greenish glazes inspired by Song dynasty glazes. A vase of this form with a crackled glaze, described as ‘sky-blue’, is illustrated in Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding [Appraisal of Ming and Qing Porcelain], Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 446; one without the distinct decorative crackles, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated in He Li, Chinese Ceramics. A New Standard Guide, London, 1996, pl. 521; another is published in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, pl. 270; two others were sold in our London rooms, 26th April 1966, lot 163 and 164; and a v🥂ase, from the Meiyintang Collection, was sold in these rooms, 7th June 2011, lot 34. See a further example sold in these rooms, 5th October 2016, lot 3646.
For the prototype of this form, see a Yongzheng mark and period example, from the Hershel V. Johnson Collection, sold in our London rooms, 21st F💜ebruary 1967,🧜 lot 61.