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A TEADUST-GLAZED VASE, 清乾隆 茶葉末釉荸薺瓶
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG 《大清乾隆年製》款
Japanese wood box, wood stand
33.5 cm 來源：
日本家族收藏，關西，自二十世紀初
PROVENANCE
A Japanese family collection, Kansai, since the early 20th
century.

HK$ 600,000-800,000
US$ 77,000-103,000

Exclusively reserved for imperial consumption, teadust glaze kilns], Tokyo, 2006, cat. no. 109; another, with the glaze
was one of the many new colours for porcelain invented thinning at the rim, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
under the supervision of the great Tang Ying (1682-1756) London (accession no. 735-1883); the third vase is in the
during the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns. Baur Collection, illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics
Aptly termed ‘teadust’ because of its characteristic flecked in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 297; and a
olive-green tone that resembles the colour of ground tea further example is in the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated
leaves, the glaze was achieved through the use of iron oxide in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang
and careful manipulation of the firing temperature. During Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 936.
the high-temperature firing process, yellow crystals in the See also an example from the T.Y. Chao Collection, sold in
glaze precipitated, creating a contrast against the dark green our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1987, lot 294, and again
ground and resulting in the desired tea-dust effect. at Christie’s New York, 20th March 1997, lot 128; another
Compare several similar vases preserved in prominent from the collection of Gerson and Judith Leiber, sold in our
museums and private collections: one pair is housed in New York rooms, 20th March 2018, lot 437; and a vase from
the Seikado Bunko Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Seikado Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, sold twice in these rooms, 8th April
zo Shincho toji. Keitokuchin kanyo no bi [Qing porcelain 2013, lot 3067 and 3rd October 2017, lot 3665.
collected in the Seikado. Beauty of the Jingdezhen imperial

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