Lot 3323. A fine and rare ge-type glazed cong-form vase, Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795). Estimate: HKD 600,000 - HKD 800,000 (USD 77,705 - USD 103,606). Price Realised HKD 1,125,000 (USD 145,719) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016. 

Each side of the square-sectioned vase is moulded with the Eight Trigrams, covered overall with a greyish-blue glaze suffused with dark grey and light golden crackles, the foot dressed brown. 11 1/8 in. (28.2 cm.) high

Provenance: Acquired by a U.S. Civil Affairs Officer in Asia between 1945-1946 and thence by descent within the family
A private Texan collection
Sold at Sotheby's New York, 12 September 2012, lot 251 

Notes: An almost identical vase is illustrated by Peter Y.K. Lam in Ethereal Elegance, Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing, The Huaihaitang Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, no. 45, pp. 172-3; another is illustrated by Bo Gyllensvard in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempte Collection, no. 209, p. 79; another identical vase is illustrated by Titus M. Eliens in Imperial Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2001, no. 78, pp. 112-3. Compare also a vase of similar form and glaze sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 4 October 2016, lot 154.

A Guan-type-glazed cong-form vase, Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795). Estimate HKD 240,000 - HKD 350,000 (USD 31,094 - USD 45,345). Price Realised  HKD 1,187,500 (USD 153,801) at Christie's Hong Kong, 4 October 2016, lot 154. Photo Christie's Images Ltd 2016.

(Cf. A Guan-type-glazed cong-form vase, Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795)

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 30 November 2016, Hong Kong, HKCEC Grand Hall