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A TEADUST-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE, FUSHOUPING
DAOGUANG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
The slender, tapering upper bulb and the bulbous lower bulb are joined by a pair of curved strap handles
that terminate in ruyi heads and that fank the narrow waist molded with a band of petals encircled by
a central rib. The vase is covered overall with a matte glaze of even yellowish olive-green color that also
covers the base around the reign mark which is covered with a caramel-color glaze, and the foot is covered
with a blackish-brown wash.
10º in. (26 cm.) high

$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE
Yangzhitang Collection.
Christie’s Paris, 14 June 2006, lot 383.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
EXHIBITED
Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Museum of Art, The Splendour of Qing Dynasty, 1992, no. 218.
Daoguang vases of this form and design with a teadust glaze appear to be quite rare. One was sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3450 and another at Christie’s London, May 2013, lot 253.
Daoguang vases of this type appear to be based on Qianlong-marked prototypes such as the example
illustrated in Shimmering Colours: Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods - The Zhuyuetang Collection,
Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005, no 167; the vase illustrated by R. Krahl in
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, no. 938; and one included in the
Min Chiu Society exhibition, Monochrome Ceramics, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, no. 100, which
was subsequently sold at Christie’s New York, 21 September 2000, lot 378.
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