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AN UNUSUAL CRACKLE-GLAZED BROWN-DRESSED
STONEWARE JAR
First half 19th century
The stoutly potted vessel of baluster profile under a crackled thick gray
glaze and divided with three bands of brown-dressed molded biscuit
decoration inspired by archaic bronze models, the wide band at the
shoulder of molded scrollwork on an incised cell ground between a
thin bands of relief ruyi heads and divided on each side by a pair of
high-relief lion-mask handles set between a similar brown-dressed
band of archaistic kuilong and rectangular flanges at the waisted neck
and above large pendent plantain leaf lappets with keyfret edges
descending towards the foot with a flat unglazed foot ring and glazed
base with seven brown-dressed spurs; the later domed pierced
wood cover surmounted by a fragment of a boxwood aborigine-form
netsuke.
9in (23cm) high

$1,500 - 2,500
十九世紀前半期 仿哥釉鐵骨泥鋪首耳瓶配木蓋
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

Compare with a similar crackle-glazed stoneware vessel, attributed to
1780-1900, and bequeathed by Mr. W. H. Cope in 1903 to the Victoria
& Albert Museum, London (acc. no. 609-1903). The same museum
has another vase of related crackled glaze and brown decorative
bands imitating bronze, produced circa 1865-75, (acc. no. 21-1876)
purchased from Bernard Quaritch in 1876, three years earlier than
the accession date of the present example; see C. Clunas, Chinese
Exports Arts and design, London, 1987, p.56, fig.38.

For a slightly smaller Yongzheng-marked archaistic vessel of bronze
form, with similar brown bands of decoration, see Monochrome
Porcelain, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p.166, no.150.

Detail: see p.16 (B)

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