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A LARGE TEADUST-GLAZED HU-SHAPED
VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER IMPRESSED SEAL
MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The ovoid body is encircled by three double bow-string
bands below a pair of molded mask and ring handles
applied to the shoulder at the base of the slightly
waisted neck that rises to a fared mouth encircled by a
molded band. The vase is covered overall with a matte
glaze of very fnely mottled olive-green color that thins
slightly on the mask handles.
21Ω in. (52 cm.) high
$60,000-80,000

PROVENANCE
Nagatani, Chicago, 3 May 1967.
EXHIBITED
On loan: Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, May 1981-January 1995.
Cha ye mo, or teadust glaze, was used as early as the
Tang dynasty on ewers and small cups produced at the
Yaozhou kilns. However, it was not until the early 18th
century, during the reign of the Yongzheng emperor,
that the glaze was used on a wide scale. Because of the
matte texture and subdued color of teadust glaze, it
was favored for use on ceramic vessels whose shapes
were based on bronze prototypes, such as the current
vase, the form and decoration of which was inspired by
bronze vessels of the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220).
A Qianlong-marked teadust-glazed hu-form vase of
comparable size, but of more slender proportions,
from the collection of Edward T. Chow, was included
in the exhibition, One Man’s Taste: Treasures from the
Lakeside Pavilion, Collection Baur, Geneva, 1988-89,
no. C.17. A pair of Qianlong-marked vases of this form
and size, but decorated in the doucai palette, was sold
at Sotheby’s Hong Kong 16 November 1988, lot 362,
and included in Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Twenty Years,
Hong Kong, 1993, p. 187, no. 241.
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