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A FINE COPPER-RED GLAZED BOWL For similar examples, see one sold in our Hong Kong rooms,
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD 9th November 1982, lot 242, and another from the estate
of Charles Harrison McClintick, sold at Christie’s New York,
the deep sides flaring and supported on a straight foot, the 2nd December 1989, lot 315. See also one with slightly
exterior glazed in a glossy carmine coalescing to a deeper rounder sides, illustrated in Catalogue of a Special Exhibition
red below the mouth and at the foot, the rim, interior and of Ch’ing-Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National
recessed base glazed white, inscribed to the base with a six Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, cat. no. 11.
character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 6 in., 15.3 cm $ 20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE
Sir Joseph Hotung Family Trust. 清雍正 紅釉盌
Marchant, London, June 2003.
《大清雍正年製》款
EXHIBITED
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, 2012-2019 來源
(on loan). 何東爵士家族信託
Marchant，倫敦，2003年6月
LITERATURE
Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg 展覽
Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 149. 蒙特利爾美術館，蒙特利爾，魁北克省，2012至2019
年 (借展)
Due to its unpredictability in the kiln, copper red glazes
proved to be the most challenging for Chinese potters.
However, as the color red is associated with celebration and 出版
happiness, these glazes were much in demand from the Karen Thomson 編，《The Blema and H. Arnold
early Ming dynasty onwards. These glazes were revived and Steinberg Collection》，蒙特利爾，2015年，圖版149
perfected during the Qing after a period of disuse towards
the end of the Ming dynasty.

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