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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 清雍正 仿官釉四連瓶
A RARE GUAN-TYPE QUADRUPLE VASE 《雍正年製》款
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG
來源：
masterfully potted as four conjoined vases of slender
cylindrical form with a short neck and everted rim, covered James 及 Marilyn Alsdorf 伉儷收藏，芝加哥
overall in an unctuous pale bluish-grey glaze suffused with a 香港佳士得1993年3月23日，編號735
matrix of yellowish-brown crackles, the footring applied with 張宗憲收藏
dark brown dressing, each base with one character of the four- 香港佳士得1999年11月2日，編號524
character seal mark in underglaze blue
10.2 cm, 4 in. 展覽：
《Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilyn
PROVENANCE
Alsdorf》， 芝加哥藝術俱樂部，芝加哥，1970年，編
Collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf, Chicago.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 23rd March 1993, lot 735. 號c59l
Collection of Robert Chang. 《雲海閣》重要中國瓷器‧張宗憲珍藏展，倫敦佳士
Christie’s Hong Kong, 2nd November 1999, lot 524. 得，1993年，圖版59
EXHIBITED
Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilyn
Alsdorf, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 1970, cat. no. c59l.
An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert
Chang Collection, Christie’s London, 1993, cat. no. 59.

HK$ 1,500,000-2,000,000
US$ 194,000-258,000

Inspired by Song dynasty prototypes, conjoined vases of
this charming and unusual form were an innovation of the
Yongzheng reign, and required craftsmen’s utmost attention
in potting and firing. A slightly smaller vase of this type in the
Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Qingdai yuyao ciqi
[Qing imperial porcelains], vol. 1, Beijing, 2005, pl. 149; two
were sold in these rooms, the first, 24th May 1985, lot 503, the
second, 22nd May 1984, lot 185, and again, 8th April 2011, lot
3002; and one from the collection of Stephen Junkunc III, sold
in our New York rooms, 20th March 2019, lot 518.
Vases of this form with Yongzheng marks and of the period,
are also known covered in other monochrome glazes: see an
example with a Ru-type glaze, in the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, included in the museum’s exhibition Qing Monochrome
Porcelain, Taipei, 1981, cat. no. 77; a celadon-glazed example
from the J.M. Hu Collection, sold in our New York rooms, 4th
June 1985, lot 40; and a slightly smaller version covered in a
teadust glaze, also sold in our New York rooms, 21st March
2018, lot 536.

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