A RARE YELLOW-GLAZED VASE (HU) LATE MING / EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

the bulbous body raised on a straight foot ring, rising to a cylindrical neck flanked by a two tubular handles, carved on each side with a single peony enclosed by a leafy stem, with an incised wave border at the rim, covered overall in a rich semi-transparent yellow glaze

Mallié & Co., Paris (according to label).

In excellent general condition, with the exception of a 2mm glaze flake at the foot and three small chips to unglazed foot ring. The slightly crackled glaze with numerous small speckled black glaze inclusions, as visible in the catalog image. Several firing imperfections, including a 1mm glazed-over rim chip at the rim.
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A small number of yellow-glazed vessels displaying a combination of both carved and incised decoration are known and have traditionally been attributed to the late Ming to early Qing period. A yellow-glazed ding in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was included in the exhibition Through the Prism of the Past: Antiquarian Trends in Chinese Art of the 16th to 18th Century, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2003, cat. no. III-35; and a ewer from the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 47.