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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 清乾隆 鱔魚黃釉出戟雙耳壺
A RARE ‘EEL SKIN’ GLAZED VASE, HU 《大清乾隆年製》款
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
來源：
masterfully potted with an ovoid body rising from a splayed
foot to a waisted neck and flared rim, flanked by a pair of 香港蘇富比2004年10月31日，編號219
scroll handles moulded at the top with ruyi-heads, the neck,
shoulders and foot further adorned with raised flanges, applied
overall with an unctuous speckled olive-green glaze, the base
incised with a six-character seal mark
32.5 cm, 12¾ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 31st October 2004, lot 219.

HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 104,000-155,000

A Qianlong mark and period teadust-glazed vase of this form
is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection,
Tokyo, 1987, pl. 229. See also an example with a sky-blue
glaze, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National
Museum. Chinese Ceramics II, Tokyo, 1990, cat. no. 722.
Compare also a teadust-glazed vase of this form sold in these
rooms, 21st May 1979, lot 131. A Qianlong mark and period
bronze simulation vase lacking the raised flanges, from the
Meiyintang collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese
Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994,
pl. 953, was sold in these rooms, 5th October 2011, lot 19.
Modelled after a contemporary bronze prototype, which would
in turn have been inspired by archaic bronze lei of the Western
Zhou dynasty, vases of this form were first made in porcelain
in the Yongzheng reign. See for example a Yongzheng mark
and period claire-de-lune vase, in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
illustrated in Qingdai yuyao ciqi [Qing imperial porcelain], vol. 1,
pt. II, Beijing, 2005, pl. 116; and a flambé-glazed example, sold
at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th April 2002, lot 654, and again in
these rooms, 8th October 2006, lot 1006.

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