A Guan-type triple-spouted 'double-gourd' vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 仿官釉三連葫蘆尊 《大清乾隆年製》款

A Belgian private collection.

Shimentang Collection.

Eskenazi Ltd, London, 2015, no. C4538.

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埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，2015年，編號C4538

Similar triple vases with finely shaped trefoil feet are known covered with various greenish glazes inspired by Song dynasty glazes. A vase of this form with a crackled glaze, described as ‘sky-blue’, 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 crackles, 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, lot 163 and 164; and a vase, from the Meiyintang Collection, was sold in these rooms, 7th June 2011, lot 34. See two further examples sold in these rooms, 5th October 2016, lot 3646 and 9th October 2020, lot 14.

For the prototype of this form, see a Yongzheng mark and period example, from the Hershel V. Johnson Collection, sold in our London rooms, 21st February 1967, lot 61.