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29 avril 2017

A Guan-type trilobed double-gourd-form vase, Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795) 

A Guan-type trilobed double-gourd-form vase, Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795) 

Lot 116. A Guan-type trilobed double-gourd-form vase, Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1736-1795), 7 ½ in. (18.8 cm.) high. Estimate GBP 20,000 - GBP 40,000 (USD 25,580 - USD 51,160) © Christie's Images Ltd 2017. 

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The vase is well potted in the form of three conjoined double-gourds, with the three-lobed body rising to the conforming necks, applied overall with a pale greyish-blue glaze suffused with faint broad crackles. The short trefoil foot is dressed with a brown wash. 

Provenance: From the collection of an English gentleman of title. Acquired prior to the 1950s and thence by descent within the family.

NoteCompare to two similar vases, one from the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1969, no. 270 (A336), and the other in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li in Chinese Ceramics. A New Standard Guide, London, 1996, pl. 521. Two other related examples of similar form and colour but with distinct crackles in the glaze have been published: one illustrated by Geng Baochang in Ming Qing ciqi jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 446, and the other formerly in the Meiyintang Collection and sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 7 April 2011, lot 34. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics And Works of Art, 9 May 2017, London, King Street 

A Guan-type trilobed double-gourd-form vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795)

Guan-type double-gourd-form vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong  (1736-1795); 20.8 cm., 8 1/8 in., from the Meiyintang Collection. Estimate 1,200,000 — 1,500,000 HKD. Sold for 3,380,000 HKD (650,703 EUR) at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 7 April 2011, lot 34. Photo Sotheby's

The globular lower bulb rising to a smaller ovoid bulb splitting into three slender necks, the two bulbs indented with three deep furrows, dividing the vessel into three lobes, covered overall in an opaque light greyish-green glaze suffused with a network of crackles stained light brown, all supported on the low trefoil foot covered with a dark brown wash, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue.

Literature: Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 876.

Note: Similar triple vases with finely shaped trefoil foot come with various greenish glazes inspired by Song dynasty guange, or Ru wares. A vase of this form with a crackled glaze described as 'sky-blue', probably from the Palace Museum collection, 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 crackle 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, lots 163 and 164; and one in these rooms, 5th November 1996, lot 863. A Yongzheng prototype of this design, from the Herschel V. Johnson collection was sold in our London rooms, 21st February 1967, lot 61; and a Jiaqing example in these rooms, 22nd May 1985, lot 240.

Sotheby's. The Meiyintang Collection - An Important Selection of Imperial Chinese Porcelains. 07 Apr 11. Hong Kong

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