A FINE AND LARGE RU-TYPE FACETED VASE SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

well potted, of octagonal form with four primary sides and subsidiary facetted sides, rising from a short splayed foot to broad angular shoulders below a tapered waisted neck of conforming section and a slightly everted rounded rim, applied overall with a caesius-coloured glaze suffused with a matrix of fine cracklure, save for the footring left unglazed and covered with a brown wash, the recessed base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue

Collection of Ichiro Hayashibara (1908-1961).

The vase is in good condition with only a minute black iron spot and an unburst air bubble at the rim, a few light scratches to the glaze and some minor yellowing staining to the cracklure at one angle.
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A closely related vase, from the Hirota Matsushige collection and now in the Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, is published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum. Chinese Ceramics II, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 721; another was sold twice in these rooms, 2nd May 2005, lot 693, and again, 5th October 2011, lot 1989; and a third vase was sold twice in these rooms, 24th November 1981, again, 23rd October 2005, and a third time in our New York rooms, 16th September 2009, lot 215.