A CHINESE CELADON-GLAZED OVOID JAR, GUAN

A CHINESE CELADON-GLAZED OVOID JAR, GUAN
SIX CHARACTER DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1821-50

Well potted with full rounded sides, gently rising to a short neck, moulded on each side in low relief with a C-shaped ear, covered overall with an even soft sea-green glaze, the base with a paper label inscribed ‘547’, 19cm.

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 51, no.547, under the title heading of ‘Whole Colour Porcelain’.

For another Daoguang celadon-glazed vase of this type, see Christie’s Paris, 15th June 2005, lot 97.

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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51， 編號547。