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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MIDWEST
COLLECTION
1335
A RARE SMALL TEADUST-GLAZED
BOTTLE VASE
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER
INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE
PERIOD (1723-1735)
The vase is covered overall with a fnely
speckled opaque glaze of rich olive-green
color that thins to a brownish-tone shell
on the edges of the tubular handles and
everted rim.
5√ in. (15 cm.) high
$20,000-30,000
A vase of this rare shape and comparable
size (14.5 cm. high), covered with a Ru-type
glaze, and with a Yongzheng six-character
mark in underglaze blue rather than a four-
character incised mark, is in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in Qingdai
Yugao Ciqi, vol. I, part 2, Beijing, 2005, pp.
322-23, no. 147. The form of these vases is
based on ‘arrow’ vases, or touhu. The touhu
was the primary accessory of a drinking
game which involved throwing all of one’s
arrows into the mouth of the vase. The
loser was assessed a penalty drink for
every errant throw.
清雍正 茶葉末釉貫耳瓶 四字篆書刻款
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