Lot 675
  • 675

AN INSCRIBED GE-TYPE YIXING LOBED TRIPOD BOWL QING DYNASTY, DATED 1892 |

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • 15.8 cm, 6 1/4  in.
well potted with lobed sides raised on tripod feet, the exterior carved with a floral spray and inscribed with a poem, dated renchen year (1892), the interior applied with a ge-type glaze

Condition

There is a hairline crack to the rim and surface wear, especially to the interior. There are minute flakes to the yixing and the one joint of the leg and body appears to the stabilised.
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Catalogue Note

For the ge-type prototype of this vessel, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 233.