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A RARE TEADUST-GLAZED Conjoined vases were an innovation of the ૶འ͍ ঩໢͋ཊ̬ᑌଧ
CONJOINED VASE potters at Jingdezhen during the Yongzheng འ͍ϋႡ‘ಛ
period (r. 1723-1735), and vases of this form
YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND with teadust glaze are exceedingly rare with no
PERIOD other examples apparently published. A slightly
taller vase of this form bearing a Yongzheng
comprising four cylindrical vases arranged in a
seal mark, but bathed in an imitation ‘Ru’ glaze,
square formation with each vase joined to the
from the Qing Court Collection preserved in the
two adjacent vases by a vertical seam and the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, was exhibited in
space at the center of the arrangement left open,
Qingdai danse you ci tezhan mulu / Catalogue of a
the vases each with a sloping shoulder rising
Special Exhibition of Ch’ing Dynasty Monochrome
to a narrow waisted neck and an everted rim,
Porcelains in the National Palace Museum,
covered overall in an olive-toned teadust glaze
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, cat. no.
su! used with " ne black & ecks pooling at the foot
77. A celadon-glazed vase of this type and mark
and the perimeter of the recessed base, the rim
sold in these rooms, 4th June 1984, lot 40; and a
glazed burnt-to! ee color, the footring dressed
related example from the J. M. Hu Collection sold
in blackish-brown slip, the base of each vase
in these rooms, 20th March 2001, lot 263. A vase
impressed with a single character of the four-
of this type and mark with a ‘Guan’-type glaze
character seal mark
sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 22nd May 1984,
Height 3¾ in., 9.5 cm
lot 185, then again in those rooms, 8th April 2011,
lot 3002.
$ 50,000-70,000

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