Beschreibung:

A 'GUAN'-TYPE VASE (HU) QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD of archaic bronze form, the pear-shaped body of rounded rectangular section subtly molded with a raised panel on each side, rising from a short slightly splayed foot to a quatrefoil rim, set with a pair of rectangular handles, applied overall with a pale caesious-colored glaze finely streaked with a random matrix of dark gray and pale brown crackle stopping neatly above the foot revealing the grayish-brown body, the interior and the recessed base glazed and with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue Height 11 3/4 in., 27.9 cm