Un rare vase Mallet en grès émaillé de type Guan - Dynastie Qing, marque et époque Yongzheng (1723-1735)

A rare guan-type mallet-shaped vase, Qing dynasty, mark and period of Yongzheng

de forme éponyme avec une base circulaire et un col droit, recouvert d'une glaçure céladon bleutée avec deux niveaux de craquelures, la base similairement émaillée avec une marque zhuanshu Yongzheng à six caractères en bleu sous couverte. 16,6 cm, 6 1/2 in. Estmé: 40,000—50,000 EUR

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 194.

Chinese Ceramic Treasures, a Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection. The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, p. 406, no. 413.

CATALOGUE NOTE: A vase of this size and mallet form with a ge-type crackled glaze was sold in our New York rooms, 19^th September 2001, lot 162; and others were sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 26^th November 1980, lot 368, and 20^th November 1985, lot 201.

Compare also a Yongzheng vase, but of smaller size and with a more compressed body, illustrated in R. L. Hobson, A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt. F.S.A., London, 1934, pl. V.

For the Song prototype of this form, see a 'Guan' vase published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Ju Ware, Kuan ware, Chun Ware, Taipei, 1973, cat. no. 31, together with a 'Jun' example, cat. no. 3.

Sotheby's Paris. From Neolithic to Qing, Chinese Ceramics from Two Private Collections from two European collections. 12 Juin 2008