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1972.43-29 (C-584)
Jar

Qing dynasty, late eighteenth century
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Porcelain with apple-green glaze, 14.9 x 10.5 (5% x 4 /s)
Harry G. Steele Collection, Gift of Grace C. Steele

TECHNICAL NOTES
The lip and interior are covered by the colorless crackled glaze
alone. Both the foot-ring and the recessed base are covered with
a chocolate-brown slip.

PROVENANCE
Harry G. Steele [1881-1941], Pasadena; his widow, Grace C. Steele.

T A THILE THE APPLE-GREEN GLAZE may have originated
V V in the late Kangxi period (1662-1722), most exam-
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ples are later in date. This example is typical of many
apple-green vessels in being thickly potted.
SL

NOTES
i. Jenyns 1951, 29, states that the apple-green glaze (pinguo qing
you) began in the Kangxi period. Margaret Medley, however, has
suggested that it did not appear until the reign of Yongzheng
(1723-1735); see Medley 1976, 257.

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