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A FLAMBÉ-GLAZED HU-FORM VASE
2175 EARLY 19TH CENTURY

40 The vase is supported on a splayed foot, and
is molded with a bow-string band above the
edge of the sloping shoulder which tapers
towards the neck fanked by a pair of peach-
sprig-form handles. The exterior is covered
with a glaze of crushed-strawberry-red
color streaked in purple and milky blue and
thinning to mushroom on the handles.
13º in. (33.7 cm.) high

$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE:

The Chinese Porcelain Company, New
York.
清十九世紀初 窯變釉雙耳尊

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
2175
A BLUE-GLAZED STEM BOWL, DOU
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER IMPRESSED SEAL MARK
AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

The vessel is molded in low relief with bands
of archaistic motifs, and is covered inside and
out with a rich blue glaze that thins on the
decoration and also covers the inside of the
pedestal foot and the mark.
6Ω in. (16.5 cm.) high

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:

Acquired between 1960-early 1980s, and
thence by descent within the family.

A blue-glazed dou in the Victoria and Albert
Museum is illustrated by M. Medley in
‘The Illustrated Regulations for Ceremonial
Paraphernalia of the Ch’ing Dynasty’,
Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society,
vol. 31, 1957-59, pp. 95-105, where the author
notes, p. 100, that in the Winter Solstice held in
the Temple of Heaven in 1748, blue porcelain
vessels were used for the frst time, as stipulated
by Emperor Qianlong, and these sacrifcial rites
continued throughout the Qing dynasty.

清嘉慶 藍釉仿古紋豆
六字篆書印款

2175 (mark)