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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ASIAN FAMILY COLLECTION
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AN EXTREMELY RARE PALE CELADON- 明永樂 翠青釉罐
GLAZED COMPRESSED GLOBULAR JAR 來源
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425) 大成古玩有限公司，香港
Of broad, compressed form, the jar is covered all over, and on 香港家族珍藏，建立於 1970 年代末至 1990 年代初
the base, with an attractive pale 'winter-green' glaze thinning on
the short neck and pooling slightly in darker tears beneath three 展覽
modified biscuit florettes on the sloping shoulders, the interior 求知雅集及香港中文大學文物館協辦，《求知雅集珍藏：中
covered with a crackled white glaze. 國古陶瓷展》，香港，1981 年 12 月 19 日至 1982 年 2 月 18 日，
6º in. (15.8 cm.) wide, box 圖錄頁 92
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-65,000 永樂翠青釉器傳世量極少，兩岸故宮各藏一件青釉罐，北京故宮藏品
為 14.1 公分寬，著錄於故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集《顏色釉》，香港，
PROVENANCE 1999 年，圖 123 號；台北故宮藏品為 12.3 公分寬，著錄於《故宮藏瓷：
Tai Sing Fine Antiques Ltd, Hong Kong 明單色釉瓷》，卷一，香港，1968 年，圖版 10、10a、10b。紐約佳士得
A Hong Kong private collection formed in the late 1970s to early 2010 年 9 月 16-17 日拍賣一件，同樣肩部小繫被改刻成朵花紋，拍品
1990s 1357 號。

EXHIBITED
Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, Exhibition of Ancient Chinese
Ceramics from the collection of the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art in
association with the Art Gallery, the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong, 19th December 1981 to 18th February 1982, cat. p. 92
Only very few Yongle porcelains with this delicate, clear, bluish-green
glaze have survived, including two Yongle jars of the same form in the
Qing Court collections. The jar in the Palace Museum, Beijing, which
measures 14.1 cm. across its base is illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong
Kong, 1999, p. 134-5, no. 123, where the glaze colour is described as
cuiqing, bluish-green or jade green. The example from the National
Palace Museum, Taipei, which measures 12.3 cm., is illustrated in
Porcelain of the National Palace Museum, Monochrome Ware of the
Ming, Book I, Hong Kong, 1968, p. 50, pls. 10, 10a and 10b, where the
colour of the glaze is described as dongqing, 'winter green'. An almost
identical example, also with three biscuit florettes on the shoulder, was
sold at Christie’s New York, 16-17 September 2010, lot 1357.

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