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A RARE IRON-RUST-GLAZED ‘IMITATION BRONZE’ VASE
18th century
Of elegant pear shape with a tall waisted neck with gently everted rim
and supported on a tall spreading foot, covered with a lustrous faux
‘patinated bronze’ glaze, the glaze continuing half-way down the neck
interior where it fades to a celadon white, the foot ring unglazed and
the interior foot and base similarly glazed.
7 1/4in (18.4cm) high

$8,000 - 12,000
十八世紀 鐵鏽花釉撇口瓶

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
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
Iron-rust glaze (tiexiu hua you 鐵鏽花釉) was an innovation made
during the reign of the Yongzheng emperor and became popular
during the Qianlong period. The major colorants of the glaze are
iron and manganese. See Peter Y. K. Lam, Shimmering Colours:
Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods, Hong Kong, 2005,
p.243. The glaze was originally intended to imitate bronze and create
porcelain pieces that would cater to the archaistic tastes of the
Court. An ovoid vase in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, with
a very similar glaze and bearing an impressed Qianlong seal mark is
illustrated on the museum’s website (acc. no. C.176-1913).

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