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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION ૶৻ඤ 㜺ᜊཊᕐЀଧ
A SUPERB FLAMBE-GLAZED HANDLED VASE ɽ૶৻ඤϋႡ‘ಛ
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD Ը๕
Henry G Marquand 1819 1902 ϗᔛdॲߒdϤܝ࢕ૄ
the well potted body rising from a splayed foot to a bowstring
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band below the angled shoulder, the tall tapered neck & anked
by a pair of scroll handles, all surmounted by a lipped rim, the
exterior covered with a glossy plum-colored glaze highlighted
by lavender-blue streaks draining away from the handles and
rim leaving a creamy-mushroom color, the interior with pale
blue streaks against a creamy-white ground, the foot ring
left unglazed exposing the porcelain body and traces of dark
brown dressing, the base with an unctuous persimmon glaze
covering an incised six-character seal mark
Height 8⅝ in., 21.9 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Henry G. Marquand (1819-1902), New York, and
thence by descent.
Compare a & ambé-glazed vase of this type, in the Capital
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Xiong Liao, Beauty of Ceramics.
Gems of the O! cial Kilns, Taipei, 1993, pl. 147; and another
included in the exhibition Collection of Chinese and Other
Far Eastern Art Assembled by Yamanaka & Company, Inc.,
Yamanaka & Company, Inc., New York, 1943, no. 915. See a
further example from the Marie Theresa L. Virata Collection,
sold at Christie’s New York, 16th March 2017, lot 614; another
from the Hosokawa clan, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th
October 2014, lot 3111; and a third, from the Hall Family
Collection, sold three times by Sotheby’s, " rst in our London
rooms, 17th December 1980, lot 659, then in our Hong Kong
rooms, 2nd May 2000, lot 560, and again in our London
rooms, 12th July 2006, lot 150.
Flambé glazes derive from the Jun wares of the Song
dynasty (960-1279), a glaze that was " rst revived during the
Yongzheng period and remained popular throughout the Qing
dynasty. For a Yongzheng prototype of this vase see one sold
at Christie’s Hong Kong, 21st September 2004, lot 316.
Henry G. Marquand was a banker and railroad " nancier, as
well as an art collector and philanthropist. He was the second
President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The portrait of
his wife, Elizabeth Allen Marquand, by John Singer Sargent was
the painter’s " rst commission in the United States. Marquand’s
collection included Old Master paintings, Roman bronzes, rare
books, over 255 Chinese ceramics, and other antiquities, some
of which were donated to museums and others were sold in a
multi-day sale at the American Art Association in 1903.
$ 50,000-70,000

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