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A RARE PAIR OF COPPER-RED DECORATED 元 釉裏紅灑斑玉壺春瓶一對
VASES, YUHUCHUN PING
YUAN DYNASTY 來源
曾於香港蘇富比上拍，1991年10月29日，編號25
each with a pear-shaped body rising from a slightly splayed
foot to a slender neck and flared rim, the body engraved with
five double bands, applied with a pale bluish-green tinged
white glaze and liberally decorated with four rich copper-red
splashes of muted shades
(2)
Heights 22 and 22.2 cm, 8⅝ and 8¾ in.
PROVENANCE
Offered at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th October 1991, lot 25.
‡ £ 120,000-150,000

Striking for the bold splashes of copper against a pale celadon
glaze, vases of this type were made at Jingdezhen during
the Yuan dynasty when potters began experimenting with
copper pigments on qingbai-type glazes. J.M. Addis in Chinese
Porcelain from the Addis Collection. Twenty-two Pieces of
Chingtechen Porcelain Presented to the British Museum,
London, 1979, pp. 9-10, discusses the experimental techniques
of the Yuan dynasty. It is however possible that the large
splashes on this piece predate the use of underglaze red as a
colour ground.
A vase of this shape and decorated with similar splashes is
illustrated in Chen Yongzhi, Porcelain Unearthed from Jininglu
Ancient City Site in Inner Mongolia, Beijing, 2004, pl. 41;
another example was included in the Oriental Ceramics Society
Exhibition of Jingdezhen Wares. The Yuan Evolution, London,
1984, cat. no. 146. Compare also with a third vase of this type,
from the C.P. Lin Collection, was sold in Sotheby’s London,
20th May 1981, lot 652.

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