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A SUPERB FLAMBE-GLAZED HANDLED VASE Family Collection, was sold three times by Sotheby’s, first
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD in our London rooms, 17th December 1980, lot 659, then in
our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd May 2000, lot 560, and again in
the well potted body rising from a splayed foot to a tall our London rooms, 12th July 2006, lot 150. For a Yongzheng
tapered neck and lipped rim, the angular shoulders flanked prototype of this vase see one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
by a pair of scroll handles and a bowstring band below, the 21st September 2004, lot 316.
exterior covered with a vibrant plum-colored glaze streaked
with sky blue and crimson, thinning to mushroom at the rim Henry G. Marquand was a banker, railroad financier, art
and handles, the interior with pale blue streaks against a collector, and philanthropist. He was the second President
creamy-white ground, the unglazed footring with traces of of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The portrait of his
dark brown dressing, the base with an unctuous persimmon wife Elizabeth Allen Marquand by John Singer Sargent
glaze over an incised six-character seal mark was the painter’s first commission in the United States.
Height 8⅝ in., 21.9 cm Marquand’s collection included Old Master paintings, Roman
bronzes, rare books, over 255 Chinese ceramics, and other
PROVENANCE antiquities, some of which were donated to museums and
others were sold in a multi-day sale at the American Art
Collection of Henry G. Marquand (1819-1902), New York.
Sotheby’s New York, 21st March 2018, lot 538. Association in 1903.
Flambé glazes derive from the Jun wares of the Song $ 100,000-150,000
dynasty (960-1279), a glaze that was first revived during
the Yongzheng period and remained popular throughout the
Qing dynasty.
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Compare a flambé-glazed vase of this type, in the Capital
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Xiong Liao, Beauty of 《大清乾隆年製》款
Ceramics. Gems of the Official Kilns, Taipei, 1993, pl. 147; and
another included in the exhibition Collection of Chinese and 來源
Other Far Eastern Art Assembled by Yamanaka & Company, Henry G. Marquand (1819-1902) 收藏，紐約
Inc., Yamanaka & Company, Inc., New York, 1943, no. 915. 紐約蘇富比2018年3月21日，編號538
See a further example from the Marie Theresa L. Virata
Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 16th March 2017, lot
614; another from the Hosokawa clan, sold in our Hong Kong
rooms, 8th October 2014, lot 3111. A third, from the Hall

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