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A TEADUST-GLAZED
FANGHU-FORM VASE
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The broad tapering neck is molded with three
bands and applied with narrow vertical fanges
centered on all four sides, and is fanked by a
pair of mythical-beast-form handles with a
single horn and long tail on the shoulder. The
vase is covered overall with a fnely speckled
yellowish-olive glaze thinning to russet on the
raised areas.
14Ω in. (36.8 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
Emily Crane Chadbourne(1871–1964)
Collection, Chicago, before 1939.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned
in 1939.
This unusual shape appears to be based on
Song dynasty Longquan celadon prototypes
with lug handles rather than beast-form
handles, such as the example from the Asian
Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated
by He Li in Chinese Ceramics: A New
Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p.
159, no. 277. The Longquan celadon vases
are themselves based on early bronze hu with
lug handles and narrow fanges dividing the
bands of decoration, which on the present
vase are represented by the molded bands
on the neck. For a Shang-dynasty bronze
example, see the hu in the British Museum,
illustrated by W. Watson, Ancient Chinese
Bronzes, London, 1962, pl. 5.
清十八/十九世紀 茶葉末釉仿古雙獸耳壺

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