清乾隆 仿汝釉八方貫耳壺 《大清乾隆年製》款

of rectangular section with chamfered corners, the pear-shaped body with facetted sides swelling gently above the foot, covered overall in a thick glaze of soft bluish-green tone with widely dispersed crackles, the neck set with a pair of tubular lug handles, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark

The vase is in very good condition with just firing pinholes and shrinkage dents. The body is slightly tilted when viewed from the top.
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In its luminous glaze with its attractive network of faint russet crackles, this vase was made to imitate the celebrated Ru wares of the Song dynasty. Compare a closely related vase in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in the Illustrated Catalogue of the Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Tokyo, 1994, vol. 2, pl. 82; one illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. 3, Geneva, 1972, pl. 344; two illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pls. 874 and 875; and a pair included in the exhibition Imperial Monochromes. The Zande Lou Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2005, cat. no. 32.