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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 清雍正
A RARE TEADUST-GLAZED VASE, HU 茶葉末釉鋪首弦紋尊
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG 《雍正年製》款
the ovoid body rising from a splayed foot to swelling shoulders
surmounted by a waisted neck flaring at the rim, flanked by 來源：
two moulded mask and mock ring handles, encircled around 香港蘇富比1997年4月29日，編號587
the body with horizontal ribs, applied overall with a speckled
two-toned green, incised to the base with a four-character seal
mark, Japanese wood box
24.9 cm, 9¾ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th April 1997, lot 587.

HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 52,000-77,500

The current vase demonstrates the ever-improving technical
ability of the Jingdezhen potters during the Yongzheng period.
This included the re-creation of completely different media in
ceramics. Wood, lacquer, metal and stone became popular
materials to be imitated, amongst which bronze simulations
demanded skills far more challenging and ambitious than what
was normally expected. The opaque and mottled glaze on this
piece was achieved through the high concentration of iron
oxide in the glaze, and required to be fired in a weak reduction
atmosphere and slowly cooled to result in this unique patina
that resembles bronze.
Compare a Yongzheng teadust-glazed vase of similar size and
form included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty
Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. I, 1980, pl. 152;
and one from the collection of the British Rail Pension Fund
sold in these rooms, 16th May 1989, lot 54. See also a flambé-
glazed vase of this form sold in these rooms, 10th April 2006,
lot 1604.

Mark

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