GUAN-TYPE GLAZED THREE-TIERED STEPPED VASE
QIANLONG MARK
£630
Auction: 15 March 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
乾隆款 仿官釉三登方壺
of trapezoid form, the three-tiered vase covered overall with a thick layer of greyish-blue glaze suffused with a network of faint russet crackles, leaving only the foot rim unglazed and covered in a layer of dark paint, the base inscribed with a six-character Qianlong mark in underglaze blue
Dimensions
9cm high
Footnote
Note: the form of this vase is very rare with prototype of similar three-tiered trapezoid form existing in a Southern Song to Yuan dynasty Guan-glazed vase, currently in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, no. 故瓷13487