A RARE CHINESE RU-TYPE HU-SHAPED VASE

A RARE CHINESE RU-TYPE HU-SHAPED VASE
SIX CHARACTER YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1723-35

Modelled after a Song dynasty prototype, with a faceted octagonal-section body raised on a tall flared foot pierced with two rectangular apertures to the sides, with a double band encircling the upper body, covered overall with a pale blue celadon glaze, 27cm.

Provenance: Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), and thence by descent through the family. This vase is recorded in the Christie, Manson & Woods inventory at Broome Park, in December 1916 on page 46, no.543, under the title heading of ‘Whole Colour Porcelain’.

For a similar vase in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, with a Guan-type glaze, cf. A Special Exhibition of Ch’ing Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National Palace Museum, p.135, no.81. See also Bonhams London, 15th May 2014, lot 27, for a closely related Yongzheng hu with a Ge-type glaze.

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來源：霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥（1850-1916），之後由其後人繼承。據佳士得Manson & Woods出版的， Broome Park庫存手冊中記載，1916年12月，頁46， 編號543。