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The glaze on this vase is particularly lovely, being of a clear, soft, even, pale
1075 celadon. Chinese celadon glazes were appreciated by connoisseurs as
A COPPER-RED-GLAZED STEM BOWL early as the Tang dynasty, when the writer Lu Yu (AD 733-804), declared
17TH-18TH CENTURY in his Cha jing (Tea Classic) that Yue ware celadon bowls were the best
vessels from which to drink fine tea. This admiration for celadon glazes on
6 in. (15.3 cm.) diam., cloth box stoneware vessels continued into the Song dynasty, when they dominated
court taste. Celadon-type glazes were applied to porcelain vessels produced
$6,000-8,000 at Jingdezhen in the early Ming period, but it was the Qing-dynasty potters
of the Kangxi reign who perfected a particularly delicate version of the glaze
EXHIBITED: applied to a very white (low iron) porcelain body. The delicate celadon glaze
The J. M. Hu (1911-1995), Zande Lou Collection.
was colored using only about half the amount of iron found in typical Song-
dynasty Longquan celadons, and was further modified in the Yongzheng

顯㈥珍藏 period to produce the even more finely textured and slightly bluer pale
celadon glaze as seen on the current vase. These celadons and the others
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created with minute variations in tone and texture have been much admired
展覽 by Chinese connoisseurs and have been given names such as douqing (bean
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珍藏 green) and dongqing (eastern green) in the Kangxi reign, and dongqing
(winter green) and fenqing (soft green) in the Yongzheng reign. The current
vase has a particularly beautiful fenqing glaze.
VARIOUS PROPERTIES A Yongzheng blue and white vase and cover of similar size and shape as
the current vase, decorated with sprays of auspicious fruit, in the Palace
ⱷ1076 Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
A RARE CELADON-GLAZED CYLINDRICAL VASE Palace Museum - 36 - Blue and white Porcelain with Underglaze Red (II), Hong
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE Kong, 2000, p. 118, no. 104.
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

10¡ in. (26.4 cm.) high, cloth box

$150,000-250,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3-4 May 1994, lot 109.
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1076
Ϝ源
香港蘇富比
年 月 日 日
拍品編號
1076 (mark)