Size: 30 cm.(H)
Decorated with a grey-blue guan-type crackled glaze, with a rounded body on a shallow foot and angular shoulders rising to a slender neck, adorned with opposing tubular-form arrow handles. Six-character Daoguang seal mark in underglaze blue on the base.
This piece is reminiscent of earlier Song ‘arrow’ vases. Like the Ge and Guan glazes of the earlier Song Dynasty the Qing master potters have highlighted the crackle effect with a dark brown wash. This also is used to give the ‘iron foot’ effect on the unglazed section of the foot rim in imitation of Song dynasty stoneware.
Collection of John Hill Morgan (1870-1945), Farmington, Connecticut. John Hill Morgan, a lawyer, scholar, art critic and expert collector of Americana, was an assistant professor and curator of American painting at Yale University, a New York State legislator and a director of Bank of America. He was a member of the American Antiquarian Society, Union Club and The Brook, both of New York, and the Wolf's Head, Elizabethan Club.He began collecting Chinese Art alongside a group of Brooklyn friends at around 1915, this vase was likely purchased at that time. See Bonham'sNew York, 30 October 2017, lot 134.
A closely related vase is illustrated in 《The National Palace Museum Monthly Of Chinese Art》No.140, November 1994, Issn 1011-9078, page 64. Another vase with similar guan-type glaze, Daoguang six-character mark, from Kwan Collection, see Christie'sParis, 14 June 2006, lot 379.