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A SUPERB TEADUST-GLAZED VASE, FANGHU

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The body of rectangular section is molded on two sides with a slightly raised peach-shape panel, and the
neck is fanked by two tubular handles. The vase is covered overall in an opaque glaze of fnely mottled,
dark yellowish-green color that continues into the interior and also covers the base surrounding the
tortoise-shell-glazed mark, and the foot is covered with a dark wash.
11æ in. (29.8 cm.) high, zitan stand, Japanese wood box

$200,000-300,000

Teadust hu vases of this particular form are relatively rare, and are more commonly found in fambé
glaze. A very similar, Yongzheng-marked teadust example was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 April
2004, lot 1091.

For the Song ceramic inspiration of this form, compare the vase with ‘apricot leaf decoration’ included
in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Illustrated in Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National
Palace Museum, Southern Sung Kuan Ware, pl. 13, which is incised with a Qianlong poem on its base;
and a Guan vase with indented corners on the neck in the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated in Oriental
Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 9, no. 44.
清乾隆 茶葉末釉杏圓貫耳方壺 六字篆書刻款

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