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A COPPER-RED PEAR-SHAPED VASE, MING 明洪武 釉里紅花卉紋玉壺春瓶 A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’ JAR, MARK 明嘉靖 青花纏枝蓮紋大罐 《大明嘉靖年製》
DYNASTY, HONGWU PERIOD AND PERIOD OF JIAJING 款
來源
Height 12¼ in., 31 cm the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue
法國私人收藏（傳） 來源
Height 20¼ in., 51.4 cm
PROVENANCE 紐約私人收藏
French Private Collection (by repute). PROVENANCE
New York Private Collection.
The design on the present vase illustrates the more quiet and
orderly manner of decorating porcelains introduced at the $ 30,000-50,000
imperial kilns during the early part of the Ming dynasty. The
soft copper-red tones characteristic of Hongwu porcelains
were well-suited to this new style. As noted by Liu Xinyuan,
significant numbers of copper-red decorated porcelains
were produced but only few were successfully fired due to
the difficulties in controlling the copper-red pigment, see
Liu Xinyuan, ‘A Study of Early Ming and Yongle Imperial
Porcelains excavated at Zhushan, Jingdezhen’, in Imperial
Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain excavated at Jingdezhen,
Taipei, 1996, p. 52.
A closely related example, illustrated by John Addis in ‘A
group of Underglaze Red’, Transactions of the Oriental
Ceramics Society, vol. 31, 1957-1959, fig. 4c, was sold in our
London rooms, 19th February 1963, lot 14. The collectors
Sir Lionel and Lady Lamb later donated it to the Ashmolean
Museum (accession no. EA1969.76). See also another
truncated Hongwu vase sold in our Paris rooms, 12th
December 2013, lot 182.
⊖ $ 15,000-25,000

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