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THE PROPERTY OF A HONG KONG FAMILY COLLECTION

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A FINE AND RARE TEADUST-GLAZED OVIFORM 清乾隆 茶葉末釉梨形尊 六字篆書刻款

VASE 來源
由現任藏家父親於2000年代初購自一法國中部家族，其家族
QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE 藝術品珍藏成立於1930年代末

PERIOD (1736-1795) 張宗憲珍藏一件相同例子，1993年於倫敦佳士得《An
Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert
The vase is well potted with an oviform body rising to a short Chang Collection》展覽，圖錄圖版52號。
cylindrical neck, entirely covered in an even and rich olive-
green glaze speckled with yellow, the glaze pales at the rim and
stops at the brown-dressed foot, the reign mark washed over in a
transparent dark-brown glaze.
5 Ω in. (14 cm.) high, wood stand, box

HK$800,000-1,200,000 US$110,000-160,000

PROVENANCE

Acquired by the father of the present owner in the Puy-de-Dôme
region, France, in the early 2000s from a family collection formed
in the late 1930

A nearly identical example of slightly smaller size is in the Robert
Chang Collection, exhibited at Christie’s London, An Exhibition of
Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2-14
June 1993, Catalogue no. 52. Other examples of teadust-glazed vases
of this form include one exhibited at the Arts Club of Chicago, Chinese
Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf, 1970, no. c73,
and subsequently at Christie’s Hong Kong, 23 March 1993, lot 741; and
another sold at Sotheby’s London, 12 June 1990, lot 283.

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