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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION An example is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum
A RARE CELADON-GLAZED ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ of Art, New York, acc. no. 14.40.366 and illustrated in Fong
BOTTLE VASE Chow, ‘Chinese Porcelains in the Altman Collection’, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Summer 1961, fig. 20.
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD Chow writes, “Only pale celadon, developed at Ching-te
elegantly potted, the ovoid body resting on a narrow slightly chen, can rival clair de lune; its clear and delightful green
splayed foot, the base molded with a band of upright color and potting are almost as perfect as peach bloom.
elongated chrysanthemum petals, rising to gently rounded The Altman collection has only one piece, a vase with a
shoulders and tapering to a slender neck surmounted by chrysanthemum base that bears the six-character K’ang-hsi
a subtly flared rim, covered in a lustrous seafoam celadon mark in underglaze blue’, p.15.
glaze pooling in the recesses, the recessed base glazed white Another vase is in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.,
and with a six-character mark in underglaze blue illustrated in Hara Hiromu, Oriental Ceramics: The World’s
Height 8 in., 20.3 cm Great Collections - The Freer Gallery of Art, vol. 10, Tokyo,
1976, pl. 37. Two examples from the Widener Collection, one
PROVENANCE
of which was formerly in the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan,
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1st January 1973. are now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and
With its delicate pale celadon glaze and pleasing form, published in Decorative Art, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics
the present vase exemplifies the elegant aesthetic and and Paintings, Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets, National
technical perfection of early Qing dynasty monochrome Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1998, pls 1942.9.400-500.
porcelains. Known as juban ping, ‘chrysanthemum petal One in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in John
vase’, the form belongs to a group of eight vessels for the Ayers and Masahiko Sato, Ceramic Art of the World: Ch’ing
scholar’s table, considered one of the most iconic groups of Dynasty, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, col. pl. 32. See also another
porcelains created under the reign of the Kangxi Emperor. vase with a reduced neck, illustrated in John Ayers, The
The group comprises three types of waterpots, a seal paste Baur Collection: Chinese Ceramics: Monochrome Glazed
box and cover, and four vases of differing form, including Porcelains of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Geneva, 1972, pl. A 357.
the ‘chrysanthemum’ type seen here. Often found with Only two or three Kangxi celadon-glazed ‘chrysanthemum’
peachbloom glazes, it is very rare to find a ‘chrysanthemum’ vases have ever appeared at auction. A Kangxi mark
vase with celadon glaze. and period example sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 26th
November 1980, lot 370, and is possibly the same vase that
sold in the same rooms, 25th April 2004, lot 44. Another
with an apocryphal Chenghua mark and formerly in the
collection of J. Insley Blair, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
28th November 2012, lot 2114.
$ 80,000-120,000

清康熙 青釉菊瓣瓶

《大清康熙年製》款
來源
Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，1973年1月1日

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