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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION
1834
A RARE TEADUST-GLAZED OVOID VASE
QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase is potted with an ovoid body and lipped rim, and is covered overall with an opaque glaze of fnely
mottled yellowish-green tone that continues into the interior and covers the base surrounding the reign
mark. The foot and mark are covered with a dark wash.
12æ in. (32.4 cm.) high, Japanese double wood box

$100,000-150,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Japan, acquired prior to 1966.
EXHIBITED
On loan: Osaka Municipal Museum, 1966-2018.
Osaka, Osaka Municipal Museum, Chugoku Kogei 5000 nen, 7 January - 5 February, 2012.
The jar-like shape of this vase, with its tapering ovoid body and lipped rim above the neck, appears to
be a very rare shape in Qing monochromes. No other vase of this shape with a teadust glaze appears to
have been published. The shape may be derived from jars of late Ming date which have the same ovoid
body that tapers to the foot, and a short neck below the lipped rim. One such jar is a yellow-glazed
example of Jiajing date (1522-1566) in the Qing Court collection, illustrated in The Complete Treasures
of the Palace Museum - 37 - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong 1999, p. 47, pl. 42, where it is described
as having “veiled” (faintly incised) decoration of phoenix and crane fying amidst fowers, and which is
of slightly smaller size (28.5 cm.). Another jar of similar shape, also of late Ming, Longqing (1567-1572),
date, engraved with dragons amidst clouds under a yellow glaze, is illustrated by Soame Jenyns in Ming
Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, pl. 95.
清乾隆 茶葉末釉瓶 六字篆書刻款

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