A QINGBAI-STYLE PORCELAIN JUE INCISED SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

the U-shaped body supported on three rounded-triangular splayed feet, rising to a flared rim set with two short lifting posts, finely carved in low relief on the exterior with an archaistic band of two confronting mythical horned beast forming a stylised taotie mask, between two raised fillets, a third line encircling the body above, all beneath a pale blue tinged transparent glaze evoking the qingbai glaze of the Song dynasty, the base incised with the six-character seal mark within three spur marks

The overall condition is very good. The actual colour is slightly more tinged with celadon than the catalogue illustration.
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Another comparable porcelain jue was included in the exhibition Art & Imitation, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 2006, p. 214, cat. no. 92. The same stylized archaistic decoration can also be found on a Qianlong marked bronze jue in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Rose Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London and Hong Kong, 1990, p. 33, no. 19.