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A LARGE GUAN-TYPE VASE, HU
Qianlong seal mark and of the period
Robustly potted with an angular sloping shoulder rising from a short
splayed foot to a waisted neck encircled by a raised horizontal rib,
flanked atop by a pair of tubular handles, covered overall with an even
sea-green glaze suffused with colourless and subtle russet crackles,
the unglazed foot rim covered with a dark brown dressing.
51.7cm (20 1/2in) high
HK$200,000 - 300,000
US$25,000 - 38,000
清乾隆 仿官釉貫耳弦紋瓶 青花「大清乾隆年製」篆書款
Provenance:
A Japanese private collection, by repute
來源:
傳日本私人收藏
The present vase exemplifies the Qianlong Emperor’s fascination with 參考香港蘇富比售一例清乾隆仿官釉瓶,其器型和尺寸與本器相
archaism and innovation, greatly inspired in its glaze from the subtle 似,2013年4月8日,拍品編號3051;相仿器型但仿汝釉和仿哥
Imperial Southern Song dynasty Guan glaze, yet reinterpreting it in 釉,見香港佳士得,2010年5月31日,拍品編號2010,及紐約佳士
this impressive size and form drawing from archaic bronze hu vessels, 得,2004年9月21日,拍品編號315。清宮舊藏一件醬釉貫耳弦紋瓶
thus reflecting the trend of innovation within tradition, which took place 可資比較,見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系:顏色釉》,香港,1999
during the Yongzheng reign and continued in the Qianlong reign. In 年,圖61。
addition to the Guan glaze, the Ge, Ru and Jun glazes of the Song
dynasty were particularly popular where the Qianlong Emperor not only 其他造型的清雍正和乾隆仿官釉之例,可參見清宮舊藏二例,見同著
collected them but also commissioned porcelain using the similar glaze 錄,圖204及208。
for his appreciation. To produce a vase of this demanding form and
monumental size would have required considerable expertise from the
Jingdezhen potters, thus the present lot is an outstanding example of
the skilful workmanship achieved during the Qianlong reign.
Only a few vases of this size and shape appear to have been
published. Compare a Qianlong mark and period Guan-type vase of
similar size and shape sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 April 2013, lot
3051. See also two Qianlong vases of this form but covered in a Ru-
type and Ge-type glaze respectively, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31
May 2010, lot 2010 and Christie’s New York, 21 September 2004, lot
315. Further compare a café-au-lait-glazed hu vase of similar size and
shape from the Qing Court Collection, see The Complete Collection of
the Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong
Kong, 1999, pl.61.
For various forms of Yongzheng and Qianlong vases covered in a
comparable Ge-type glaze from the Qing Court Collection in the
Palace Museum, Beijing, see ibid., pls. 204 and 208.
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