PROVENANCE: From Private estate collections of Jullias Phillips (1923 - 2017), Marietta, Georgia. When WWII started, Jullias worked at the Charleston Navy Yard helping build ships to protect our country and the world. They moved to Charleston, one of America oldest city with many historical building and antiques. Start from here, Jullias love to collect porcelains and many other antiques, and many year later they came back to Marietta, Georgia. Dimensions: 6-1/2" H x 5-1/2" W Chinese Qing Dynasty Period, Ge type amphora garlic vase. Potted in garlic bottle vase, bulbous lower belly, thick, with rounded shoulder, short cylindrical neck, with shrink on the neck middle to enlarge onion head shape, emerge two archaic ruyi handles flanked from head to the shoulder rim, with slight short mouth rim, raised on short small round, with slight concaved foot base. The exterior decorated with hand-painting in light grey under glazed base color which contrast against the Ge design. Distinctive GE, crackled glaze also known as jinsi tiexian which translates to mean gold floss and iron thread which details the look of several lines that appear in the crackled surface. The glaze is seamless and gives off a beautiful luster, with the colors maintaining excellent vibrancy. Mark on base, gilt over glazed script characters, Made in The Years of QianLong Reign Period of Great Qing Dynasty.