Page 71 - 2019 September 11th Sotheby's Important Chinese Art

633
A FINE BLUE-GLAZED STEMBOWL Yongzheng blue-glazed stembowls of this size and form
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD are in the British Museum and Musée Guimet, illustrated
respectively in Albert Le Bonheur, Oriental Ceramics: The
the rounded sides supported on a tall slightly splayed hollow World’s Great Collections, British Museum, vol. 5, Tokyo,
stem, rising to a gently everted rim, the exterior covered 1981, pl. 233, and Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great
in a vibrant blue stopping neatly below the rim and above Collections, Musée Guimet, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 165.
the foot, the interior of the bowl and base glazed white, the Another example is illustrated in Ireneus László Legeza,
inside of the stem inscribed with a horizontal six-character A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm
mark in underglaze blue MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972,
Diameter 6 in., 15.3 cm pl. CIII.
PROVENANCE See also one sold in our London rooms, 11th December
1990, lot 374, and another sold at Christie’s London, 13th
English Private Collection.
Sotheby’s London, 10th November 2004, lot 658. November 2001, lot 135.
LITERATURE $ 30,000-50,000
Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg
Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 156.
清雍正 霽藍釉高足盌
Cobalt-blue porcelains were associated with the Tiantan,
Altar of Heaven, where they were used during imperial 《大清雍正年製》款
rituals. Unsurprisingly, such glazes are sometimes referred
to as ‘sacrificial blue‘ (jilan). 來源
英國私人收藏
倫敦蘇富比2004年11月10日，編號658
出版
Karen Thomson 編，《The Blema and H. Arnold
Steinberg Collection》，蒙特利爾，2015年，圖版156

STANDARDS OF EXCELLECE | THE BLEMA AND H. ARNOLD STEINBERG COLLECTION 69