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A CELADON-GLAZED JAR AND COVER included in the exhibition Catalog of the Special Exhibition of
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD K’ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch’ien-lung Porcelain Ware from
the Ch’ing Dynasty in the National Museum Palace, Taipei,
Þ nely potted with the ovoid body rising from a recessed base 1986, cat. no. 27.
to a short neck, molded on each side below the shoulders
with a reversed C-shaped mock handle, the cover of a A similar jar from the Meiyintang Collection was sold in our
shallow domed form, covered overall with a smooth sea- Hong Kong rooms, 4th April 2012, lot 14; and another from
green glaze, thinning to a lighter tone at the rim and handles, the T.Y. Chao Collection was sold in the same rooms, 19th
the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue May 1987, lot 283; one without a cover in the Hong Kong
(2) Museum of Art was included in the museum’s exhibition
Height 8½ in., 21.6 cm The Wonders of the Potter’s Palette. Qing Ceramics from
the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong,
This vessel form, with its superbly harmonious proÞ le, 1984-5, cat. no. 79; and a Daoguang variant, lacking the
integrating its cover, and its unusual C-shaped motifs on the raised C-shaped motifs, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is
sides appears to have originated during the Kangxi reign.
published in Geng Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang
The shape is often called riyueguan (‘sun-and-moon jar’), its gu taoci ciliao xuancui [Selection of ancient ceramic material
cover supposedly representing the sun and the crescents at from the Palace Museum], vol. II, Beijing, 2005, pl. 278.
its sides the moon, but no comparable iconography appears
to be known from other works of art. A rare Kangxi version $ 20,000-30,000
of this design in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is
㶭Ḧ昮ġġġ䰱曺慱㖍㚰仸
˪⣏㶭Ḧ昮⸜墥˫㫦

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