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A VERY RARE CLAIR-DE-LUNE-
GLAZED JAR, ZUN
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND
OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The vessel is fanked by a pair of animal-mask handles and covered Clair-de-lune-glazed wares were highly prized in the Qing dynasty and
overall with a pale blue glaze sufused with fne crackles. the color was strictly reserved for imperial porcelain. The glaze was
frst developed in the Xuande (1426-1435) period, as evidenced by the
4¡ in. (11.3 cm.) diam.
excavated Xuande-marked stem bowl illustrated by S. Liang, Yuan’s
and Ming’s Imperial Porcelains Unearthed from Jingdezhen, Beijing,
$20,000-30,000 1999, p. 256, no. 257. The glaze did not gain prominence until the
Kangxi period, when it was used mostly for scholar’s objects.
PROVENANCE
A Kangxi marked clair-de-lune-glazed jar of the same rare form and
Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937) Collection, Chicago, before 1924.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned as the Collection of Lucy size, formerly in the collection of Ping Y. Tai Foundation, was sold at
Maud Buckingham (1870-1920) in 1924. Christie’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 248. A Kangxi-marked
white-glazed example in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Kangxi
Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong,
1998, no. 231, and a further Kangxi-marked white-glazed example
from the Wang Xing Lou Collection is illustrated in Imperial Perfection:
The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi - Yongzheng -
Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2004, p. 170, no. 61.
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