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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 550

A LARGE TEADUST- GLAZED VASE, QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PE RIOD
Estimate: 50,000 - 70,000 USD

A LARGE TEADUST-GLAZED VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
清乾隆 茶葉末釉鋪首耳弦紋壺 《大清乾隆年製》款

of archaistic hu form, stoutly potted, the ovoid body rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck flaring at the rim, set to the
shoulder with a pair of beast mask-handles suspending fixed rings, the body further molded with three evenly spaced bands of
double rings, covered overall in a deep olive-green speckled glaze deepening to dark brown on the raised edges of the handles, the
base incised with a six-character seal mark

Height 21¼ in., 54 cm

Provenance
American Private Collection, acquired in the early 1930s, and thence by descent.

來源
美國私人收藏，得於1930年代初，此後家族傳承

Catalogue Note
The present vase successfully integrates the unique quality of the teadust glaze with the ancient hu form in a nod to archaism.
Only a few other vases of this type and impressive size appear to be known. See, for example, a vase from the E.T. Chow Collection
exhibited in One Man's Taste: Treasures from the Lakeside Pavilion, Galleries of the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1988, cat. no. C17;
another sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 23rd October 2005, lot 306; and a third from the Robert B. and Beatrice C. Mayer family

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