清乾隆 仿官釉琮式瓶 《大清乾隆年製》款

of archaic jade cong form, the straight-sided body rising from a short foot to a narrow tapering circular neck and modelled along the corner with trigrams, applied overall with an attractive caesius-coloured glaze suffused with a fine network of crackles, save for the footrim left unglazed and applied with a brown wash in imitation of the Song dynasty ware, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark, wood stand and old Japanese box

The shoulder has a stained horizontal surface hairline crack with associated bruises, probably developed from the original crackles, but the overall condition is otherwise quite good. There are a few typical imperfections in the glaze consistent with the type, including a small glaze pull of 0.5 cm to one side, and a body line under the glaze to the rim extending from a small indentation on the mouth, original to the potting. The actual colour is somewhat warmer and deeper, slightly more sage green when compared to the catalogue illustration.
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Compare a similar vase from the Carl Kempe Collection, illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 209, sold in these rooms, 12th June 2008, lot 123. See also another example sold in our Paris rooms, 15th December 2011, lot 98.