A Guan-type vase, seal mark of Qianlong, the globular body rising from a spreading foot to an hexagonally lobed slightly waisted neck flaring to the scalloped rim, and flanked by a pair of C-scroll handles, covered overall with a pale greyish green glaze suffused with a network of faint russet and darker brown crackle, the unglazed foot revealing the brown ware, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark, 23.8 cm high