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AN UNUSUAL WHITE-GLAZED SOFT PASTE MOLDED Kilns in Jingdezhen began producing porcelain in soft paste (known in
‘DRAGONS AND LINGZHI’ VASE Chinese as huashi or ‘slippery stone’) in the 18th century. This material
18th century could produce thin vessels that were more easily decorated with
Of flattened baluster shape, the wide body molded in low relief in a hollow molds, saving labor and enabling increased production. For a
continuous scene with a striding three-clawed dragon to each side moonflask with a Qianlong mark and molded with very similar sinuous
amidst scrolling auspicious lingzhi between a band of breaking waves dragons, see Peter Y. K. Lam (ed.), Ethereal Elegance, Porcelain
at the foot and ruyi-head lappets at the shoulder, the neck similarly Vases of the Imperial Qing, The Huaihaitang Collection, The Chinese
molded and divided at the narrow sides by simple loop handles with University of Hong Kong, 2008, pp.88-89, no.3.
wanzi, all under a slightly creamy white glaze with a widely spaced
crackle, supported on a rounded oval biscuit foot rim, the base glazed. Compare also two related, white-glazed soft paste vases with Qianlong
9 1/2in (24.1cm) high seal marks, one archaistic, that sold at Sotheby’s, London, 15 May
2019, lot 39; and another of globular shape with molded floral design,
$1,000 - 1,500 that sold at Sotheby’s, New York, Important Chinese Ceramics from
the J.M. Hu Family Collection, 4 June 1985, lot 32.
十八世紀 白釉模印漿胎靈芝螭龍紋瓶
See also a Qianlong soft paste white-glazed vase, illustrated by R.
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911,
London, 1998, no.29.
Provenance:
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York
Purchase by subscription, 1879
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present
來源：
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約
會費購藏，1879 年
大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今

Detail: see p.16 (F)
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