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A RARE TEADUST-GLAZED OVIFORM VASE 士紳珍藏
QIANLONG IMPRESSED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE
PERIOD (1736-1795) 清乾隆 茶葉末釉梨形尊 六字篆書印款
來源:
The vase is well potted with an oviform body rising to a short cylindrical neck and
is entirely covered in an even and rich olive-green glaze speckled with yellow. 張宗憲珍藏, 香港, 1993年以前
5º in. (13.3 cm.) high 展覽:
倫敦佳士得, 「張宗憲珍藏重要中國瓷器展」, 1993年6月2-14日
$250,000-350,000
出版:
PROVENANCE: 倫敦佳士得, 《張宗憲珍藏重要中國瓷器展》, 1993年6月2-14日, 圖錄編號52
Robert Chang Collection, Hong Kong, before 1993.

EXHIBITED:
Christie's London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the
Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June 1993.
LITERATURE:
Christie's London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the
Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June 1993, no. 52.
Qianlong teadust-glazed vases of this ovoid form are extremely rare. Other
examples of teadust-glazed vases of this form include one exhibited at
the Arts Club of Chicago, Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and
Marilynn Alsdorf, 1970, no. c73, and subsequently sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 23 March 1993, lot 741; and another sold at Sotheby's London, 12 June (base)
1990, lot 283. Compare, also, the slightly larger Yongzheng-marked teadust
vase of similar shape but with fluted sides, from the Palace Museum, Beijing,
illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 302, pl. 131.
Qianlong-marked vases of related form covered in other monochrome glazes
have also been recorded. For example, a Ru-type example from the Robert
Chang Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot 503,
and another from the W. W. Winkworth Collection, sold at Sotheby's London,
12 December 1972, lot 149. A blue-glazed vase was included in the Min Chiu
Society exhibition, Monochrome Ceramics of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, 1977, illustrated in the catalogue, no. 43. Kangxi-
marked vases of this shape but of slightly different size have also been
published. One in the Palace Museum, Beijing, with a 'winter-green' glaze, is
illustrated in ibid., Hong Kong, 1989, p. 148, pl. 131; an example covered in a
celadon glaze was included in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Special
Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Monochrome Glaze Porcelain, 1981, no. 75;
and another with a lavender-blue glaze, from the Zhuyuetang Collection,
exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is illustrated by Peter Y. K.
Lam, in Shimmering Colours - Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods: The
Zhuyuetang Collection, Hong Kong, 2005, no. 70.

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