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A MIRROR-BLACK-GLAZED VASE, MEIPING 清十八世紀 烏金釉梅瓶
18TH CENTURY
The vase is sturdily potted with high, rounded shoulders below a short, waisted
neck, and tapers towards the slightly fared foot. It is covered on the exterior 來源:
with a lustrous black glaze ending just above the foot rim. The interior and the
recessed base are covered with a transparent glaze. Hugh M. Moss Limited Oriental Works of Art,倫敦,1974年
13 in. (33.3 cm.) high
4月17日
£10,000-15,000 US$14,000-20,000
€12,000-17,000 歐洲私人珍藏
PROVENANCE:
Hugh M. Moss Limited Oriental Works of Art, London, 17 April 1974.
Property of a Private European Collector.
'Mirror-black' is mentioned by Père de'Entrecolles, who was at Jingdezhen in
1720, as a high temperature glaze coloured with low-grade Chinese cobalt
(an iron-manganese-cobalt mixture). See another mirror-black-glazed vase,
dated to the Kangxi period, from the collection of Professor E. T. Hall, sold at
Christie's London 7 June 2004, lot 193.

(Hugh M. Moss invoice)

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