GUAN-TYPE CELADON LONG NECK VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
£1,260
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 4 November 2022 from 10:00 GMT
Description
清 仿官釉青瓷七弦紋長頸瓶
the compressed globular body rising from a short recessed foot to a smooth shoulder and surmounted by a tall tapering neck terminating to a straight mouth rim, both the body and the neck exquisitely potted with three raised horizontal ribs, and a faintly discernible protruding fillet encircling the base of the neck, covered overall with a lustrous bluish-celadon glaze suffused with a network of luminous golden-beige crackles, leaving only the foot ring unglazed and revealing the dark brown body
Dimensions
25.5cm high
Footnote
Note: a comparable Qing dynasty celadon-glazed vase imitating a Guan-ware prototype from the Southern Song dynasty, similar in raised horizontal ribs and shape to the current example, was in the collection of the Qing Court collection with a Qianlong imperial poem inscribed to its base, and currently is in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, museum number Gu Ci 故瓷14085.