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PROPERTY FROM THE ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION, NEW YORK Footed vessels of this type could be used for a number of purposes including
as a washer, as a censer when flled with sand for the insertion of incense
1233 sticks, as bowls for growing narcissus bulbs, and as the stand for a fower
A RARE TEADUST-GLAZED BRACKET-LOBED pot of the same shape.
‘NARCISSUS BOWL’
Vessels of this particular bracket-lobed shape with monochrome glazes
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER IMPRESSED SEAL MARK AND OF were made during the Yongzheng period, refecting the interest of the
THE PERIOD (1723-1735) Yongzheng Emperor in the antique, as the shape is based on Yuan-Ming
Finely potted after a Yuan-Ming-dynasty prototype, the vessel has shallow, dynasty ‘Numbered’ Jun vessels of a related lobed shape, and all appear
rounded sides molded as six petals that rise to the everted bracket-lobed rim to have a monochrome glaze. Referencing the earlier Jun prototypes, the
and is raised on three ruyi-shaped feet. The vessel is covered overall in an most-often seen monochrome glaze on these Yongzheng-marked vessels is
even, fnely speckled olive-green, opaque glaze that thins to russet on the of Jun-type, several of which have been published: one from the Qing Court
raised edges. Collection, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete
8 in. (20.2 cm.) diam. Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 37 - Monochrome Porcelain,
Hong Kong, 1999, pp. 196-7, no. 178, where it is described as a washer; one
$40,000-60,000 in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Qingdai danseyou ciqi,
Taipei, 1981, no. 84, where it is described as a pot stand; one illustrated by
PROVENANCE J. Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pp.
155, no. 262, where it is described as a fower pot stand and is illustrated
Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921) Collection. across from its matching fower pot; and one in the Walters Collection
Estate of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943); Parke Bernet Galleries, New illustrated by S. Bushell in Oriental Ceramic Art, 1981, p. 90, fg. 126.
York, 15 October 1943, lot 143.
The more unusual monochrome glazes found on similarly shaped vessels
EXHIBITED include turquoise, as seen on a turquoise-glazed example, without a mark,
but dated Yongzheng, illustrated in Shimmering Colours: Monochromes of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, prior to 1943. Yuan to Qing Periods - The Zhuyuetang Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 2005, p. 178, no. 105; ‘eel-skin’, as seen on the
(mark) vessel sold at Christie’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 484; and teadust,
as seen on the present vessel. As with the opaque Jun-type glazes, the shape
lends itself especially well to the use of the opaque ‘eel-skin’ and teadust
glazes, which thin to a russet color on the raised edges, creating an
attractive contrast.

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