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each robustly potted after the Song dynasty prototype, the compressed globular body resting on a slightly splayed foot and sweeping up to a tall gently waisted neck and cupped mouth, the shoulder bordered with three horizontal raised ribs, the neck with two evenly spaced fillets above a further raised fillet collaring the lower neck, evenly applied overall with a translucent pale greyish-blue glaze suffused with a dense network of beige crackles, the base removed

The bases of both vases have been removed as conversions for lamps. What remains is in good structural condition, with just minor firing imperfections.
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Several larger Yongzheng-marked vases of this shape and glaze, with rectangular apertures at the foot, are preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taipei; see one published in The Yongzheng Emperor and His Times, Taipei, 2007, cat. no. II-27.