Two blue-glazed cong vases. 19th century - image-1

Lot 913 Dα

Two blue-glazed cong vases. 19th century

Auction 1124 - overview Cologne
08.12.2018, 13:00 - China
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €

Two blue-glazed cong vases. 19th century

Of archaic jade form, the square sectioned body rising from a short circular foot to a short cylindrical neck, molded to each side with the Eight Daoist Trigrams (bagua) arranged in two columns and covered overall with a ge-type pale blue-green crackled glaze. Apocryphal Yongzheng six-character mark.
Height 13.8 cm each

Provenance

Private collection, Hesse, acquired in the 1960s/70s

Literature

Compare a similar vase bearing a Yongzheng mark illustrated in Georg Weishaupt (ed.), Chinese and Japanese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th centuries and their forerunners. From the Weishaupt collection, Stuttgart 2002, p. 199, no. 207