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RARE VASE ARCHAISANT COUVERT EN PORCELAINE
EMAILLEE PUCE, ZUN
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, FIN DU XIXEME SIECLE, MARQUE DE
SALLE A QUATRE CARACTERES SHAO YI TANG ZHI
En forme du bronze archaïque zun et entièrement recouvert d'une belle The current vessel was modeled after a zun vessel of the same name illustrated
glaçure puce, il repose sur un petit pied légèrement évasé orné de motifs in the Xuanhe bo gu tu. The Shang Xiong Ding Zun recorded in Xuanhe bo gu tu
géométriques. Sa panse et le couvercle sont à décor moulé de frises de motifs has a handle that has not been reproduced on the current vessel, and it has the
archaïsants. L'intérieur du couvercle émaillé blanc porte une marque incisée same four-character inscription on its cover and on its base reading xiong Ding
Shang Xiong Ding Zun (Zun du frère ainé Ding). da X (elder brother Ding), revealing that the vessel was cast by Ding’s younger
Hauteur: 21 cm. (8º in.)
brother. The vessel was thus interpreted to have been either cast by Tai Geng,
€12,000-18,000 US$15,000-21,000 the seventh ruler of the Shang dynasty for his elder brother Wo Ding, the sixth
£11,000-16,000 ruler of the dynasty, or Wai Ren, the twelfth ruler, for his elder brother Zhong
Ding, the eleventh ruler.
A RARE PUCE ENAMELED ARCHAISTIC VESSEL AND COVER, ZUN
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY, SHAO YI TANG ZHI FOUR See a very similar pinkish-red-enamelled archaistic vase and cover, dated
CHARACTER HALLMARK Guangxu period (1875-1908), sold in Christie’s New York, 15 September 2011,
清十九世紀末 胭脂紅釉仿古紋尊 「商兄丁尊」「 紹衣堂製 」款 lot 1606.

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