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PROPERTY FROM THE CHUAN CHING TANG COLLECTION 清乾隆 粉青釉葫蘆瓶
A CELADON-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE, 《大清乾隆年製》款
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
32.9 cm

HK$ 500,000-700,000
US$ 64,000-89,500

This vase is remarkable for its luminous celadon glaze, the Vases of this form are also known with their matching covers,
purity of which accentuates the graceful curves of its profile. such as a vase in the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, included
A pair of vases of this type in the Metropolitan Museum of in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi,
Art, New York, is illustrated in Suzanne G. Valenstein, The Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Art Gallery, The Chinese
Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 69;
pl. 98; one, from the Zande Lou collection, was included in another from the Jingguantang collection, included in the Min
the exhibition Qing Imperial Monochromes. The Zande Lou Chiu Society exhibition Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong
Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 212, and sold
Kong, Hong Kong, 2005, cat. no. 42; a slightly smaller vase at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28th October 2002, lot 723.
of this type, in the Meiyintang collection, illustrated in Regina
Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,
vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 864.

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