A celadon glazed cong vase with 'Eight Trigrams' decoration, Qing dynasty, Guangxu mark and period (1875-1908).
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The square section vase moulded with the ba gua to each facet, with a short neck with a rolled mouth rim, raised on a slightly flared foot, all covered with an even celadon green glaze. Height 27.5 cm.
Interior with firing flaws.
Provenance
Property of a private Finnish Collection.
The collection was formed between 1980-2020, the collector has had an interest in China and Chinese Works of Art since childhood, growing up in Beijing. He returned to China in grownup years for work, he came to live in China altogether more than 40 years. His love of China, and Chinese works of art is mirrored in the collection and being an academic collector, he never got tired of learning more about the subject by studying literature, attending lectures, visiting museums, auction houses and befriending curators from Peking, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 1.
Exhibitions
Compare with a vase similar to this one in the Boston Fine Art Museum, but with Tongzhi mark, Credit Line. Bequest of Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes. Accession Number. RES.65.3.
Compare with similar vase sold at Bonhams, Asian Art, May, 2017, Live Auction, London, Knightsbridge, lot 197.
Literature
A very similar vase but with a Xuantong mark in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in H.A. Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th centuries, Lochem, 1977, pl.111.