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A RARE TEADUST-GLAZED VASE, ZUN
DAOGUANG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
The vase has an ovoid body encircled just below the top of the high splayed foot with a single bow-string
band and around the body with three double bow-string bands, and has a pair of molded mask and ring
handles applied to the shoulder below the slightly waisted neck that rises to a fared mouth with molded
band below the rim. The vase is covered overall with a matte glaze of very fnely mottled dark olive-green
color that thins slightly on the mask handles and also covers the base surrounding the mark in which
the characters are of the same dark green glaze against an ivory ground, and the foot is covered with a
blackish-brown wash.
10¡ in. (26.3 cm.) high
(mark)
$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 10 November 2005, lot 790.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
Two other vases of this shape and design with Yongzheng marks are illustrated in Shimmering Colours:
Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods - The Zhuyuetang Collection, Art Museum, The University of
Hong Kong, 2005, one with a celadon glaze, no. 76, the other with a diferent type of teadust glaze, no.
165. See, also, the Daoguang-marked vase of this shape, but decorated with blue and white archaistic
designs, sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 2007, lot 316.
清道光 茶葉末釉弦紋鋪首啣環耳瓶 六字篆書刻款

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