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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE The unusual geometric design is based on Middle Eastern PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN PRIVATE 清道光 青花纏枝花卉紋鋪首耳壺
COLLECTION motifs which first appeared on Chinese blue and white COLLECTION
A PAIR OF MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE porcelains of the Yongle period (1403-1424), such as a jars of A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE VASE (HU) 《大清道光年製》款
JARLETS cylindrical albarello shape and moonflasks. See a Yongle jar SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG
MARKS AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG and cover from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Geng the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue 來源
Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang Ming chu qinghua ci
the base of each with a six-character mark in underglaze blue [Early Ming blue-and-white porcelain in the Palace Museum], Height 10 in., 25.3 cm 紐約蘇富比1997年9月23日，編號281
within a double circle (2) Beijing, 2002, vol. 1, pl. 22, and for two different Qing copies,
Height 4 in., 10.1 cm ibid., vol. 2, pl. 193: a small jar of Yongzheng mark and period; PROVENANCE
and pl. 208: a closely copied unmarked jar and cover from Sotheby’s New York, 23rd September 1997, lot 281.
PROVENANCE the Qing Court Collection, attributed to the Qianlong reign.
This vase belongs to a distinct group of blue and white wares
Sotheby’s New York, 23rd September 1997, lot 286. from the Qing dynasty with motifs adapted from early 15th
century porcelain on forms inspired by bronze prototypes.
$ 40,000-60,000 Vases of this form were first produced at the imperial kilns
in Jingdezhen during the Yongzheng period (1723-1735) and
were produced in large quantities during the Qianlong period
清雍正 青花錦地開光花卉紋小罐一對 (1735-1795). See, for example, a Qianlong mark and period
《大清雍正年製》款 vase in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in
Porcelain of the National Palace Museum. Blue and White
Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 2.
來源
紐約蘇富比1997年9月23日，編號286 Vases of this form from the Daoguang period are rarer,
however see one illustrated in Geng Baochang, Ming Qing
ciqi jianding [Connoisseurship of Ming and Qing Porcelains],
Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 510; and another sold in these rooms,
29th May 1991, lot 273.
$ 60,000-80,000

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