Lot 592. A small 'guan-type' vase, Qing dynasty, 18th century; 10.5cm., 4 1/8 in. Estimate 400—600 GBP. Lot sold 5,625 GBP. Photo Sotheby's 2008 

the body of square pear shape with canted corners, rising from a short spreading foot to a short straight neck set with a pair of tubular handles, covered overall in a pale bluish-grey glaze suffused with a matrix of crackles; together with a similarly glazed incense holder. Quantity: 2.

Provenance: Peter Boode, London (vase, according to label). 

Literature: Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 219 (vase).

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, London, 05 Nov 08.