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A RARE RU-TYPE MEIPING 清雍正 仿汝釉梅瓶
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG 《大清雍正年製》款
the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue
Height 11¼ in., 28.6 cm
來源
PROVENANCE 紐約蘇富比1999年3月22至23日，編號382
Sotheby’s New York, 22nd-23rd March 1999, lot 382.
From the first year of his reign, the Yongzheng Emperor
commissioned items from the Palace Workshops, effecting
change in its output. Antiques in the Palace Collection
were used as standards for quality, models for archaistic
designs and as inspiration for innovation. Simplicity of form
and absence of decoration were stylistic trends introduced
by Tang Ying, Superintendent of the Imperial kilns in
Jingdezhen, and also endorsed by the Emperor.
The fresh modernity of this meiping, with its subtly cracked
bluish-gray glaze imitating the treasured Ru wares of the
Northern Song dynasty and its generously swelling form, is
an excellent example of the deceptive minimalism that would
have demanded the highest level of aesthetic conception and
technical mastery from the potters.
Compare a meiping of the same size and profile, described
as applied with a Guan-type glaze, sold in our Hong Kong
rooms, 29th April 1997, lot 579.

$ 100,000-150,000

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