A flambé-glazed vase, fanghu Qianlong seal mark and period

of archaic bronze form, the pear-shaped body of rectangular section rising from a gently spreading foot to a quatrefoil rim, set at the shoulder with a pair of square lug handles and molded to the front and back with a raised peach-form panel, covered overall with a lustrous glaze of crushed-raspberries tone with broad purple and lavender streaks, thinning to a clear buff colour at the rim and along the edges, the base incised with a six-character seal mark and further applied with a greyish glaze with russet flecks

There is a 2cm crack to the top corner of one handle. There is some chips to the glaze to the edge of the base of the vase, most likely caused when removing from the kiln. There is also five cracks at the base of the vase running through the footrim.
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