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           PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EAST COAST PRIVATE   清乾隆 紅釉梅瓶 《大清乾隆年製》款
           COLLECTION
           A FINE COPPER-RED-GLAZED MEIPING, SEAL
           MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
           the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue
           Height 12 in., 30.5 cm
           The use of copper-red glaze at Jingdezhen was revived by
           the Kangxi Emperor after the decline in usage during the
           late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. With the effort to
           reproduce classic Ming sacrificial-red (jihong) porcelains,
           Qing copper-red pieces quickly outnumbered their Ming
           counterparts. Nigel Wood in Chinese Glazes, London,
           1999, p. 180, notes how the French Jesuit missionary,
           Pere Francois D’Entrecolles (b. 1664-1741) wrote letters
           giving detailed accounts of the copper-red production
           at Jingdezhen, the sourcing of the copper for the glaze,
           the recipes and the kiln location of the firing of these
           wares. D’Entrecolles was aware of the difficulties involved in
           the making of copper-red wares and his account confirms
           the high level of technical knowledge of the potters at
           Jingdezhen. Although copper-red pieces can be readily
           found from the Kangxi and Yongzheng periods, by Qianlong’s
           reign they become fewer in number.
           Qianlong meiping in copper-red glaze are rare, although a
           small number are recorded, ranging between 9 and 12.5
           inches in height. See a slightly smaller meiping in the Roemer
           Museum, Hildesheim, also with a Qianlong reign mark and
           of the period, illustrated in Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches
           Porzellan, Mainz am Rhein, 1981, pl. 99; and another sold in
           our Hong Kong rooms, 10th April 2006, lot 1521. A further
           example, from the Jingguantang Collection, was sold at
           Christie’s Hong Kong, 5th November 1997, lot 864; another
           from the collection of Professor Ross Edman, was sold twice
           in these rooms, 23rd September 1995, lot 426 and again,
           18th March 2008, lot 151; and a third was also sold in these
           rooms, 15th September 2010, lot 264.
           $ 30,000-50,000




























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