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AN APPLE-GREEN CRACKLE-GLAZED BOTTLE This sophisticated vase is remarkable not only for its
VASE beautiful apple-green color enriched by subtle crackles,
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD but also for its elegant shape, which was less commonly
applied with such a glaze. A green color derived from copper
wood stand, Japanese wood box (4) was used as a monochrome glaze since the Xuande period
Height 7½ in., 18.8 cm (1426-35) and became popular in the Kangxi reign (1662-
1722). The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., has a
PROVENANCE collection of apple-green crackled-glazed vessels, mostly
Yamanaka & Co., Osaka, 1923. from the Widener Collection. Compare, for example, three
Eisei Bunko Museum, Tokyo. bottle vases attributed to the late 17th or early 18th century,
each with a slightly different hue of apple green, but all with
EXHIBITED a globular body, lacking the tall waisted spreading foot of the
Shina Chosen Kobijutsu Tenkan [Grand Exhibition of Ancient present piece (accession nos 1942.9.535, 1942.9.537 and
Chinese and Corean works of art], Yamanaka & Co., Osaka, 1942.9.542), illustrated in Virginia Bower et al., Decorative
Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings, Persian
1923, cat. no. 136. and Indian Rugs and Carpets. The Collections of the National
Shinkan kansei kinen tokubetsu-ten [The Special Exhibition in
memory of the new building], Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1998,
1966, cat. no. 303. pls 108-110. See also a bottle vase attributed to the Kangxi
period, with a darker glaze than the present lot, formerly
in the collection of Benjamin Altman, now preserved in
LITERATURE
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession no.
Sekai toji zenshu [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 12, Tokyo, 14.40.346).
1956, pl.52.
Toki Zenshu - Shinsho no Kanyo [Ceramic Library - Official ⊖ $ 60,000-80,000
Wares of the Qing Dynasty], vol. 16, Tokyo, 1958, col. pl. 11.
Toji Taikei Shin-no-kanyo [Compendium of Ceramics. 46.
Imperial porcelain in Qing Dynasty], Tokyo, 1973, pl. 8. 清康熙 蘋果綠釉長頸瓶
Toki koza - Chugoku [Ceramic Course - China], vol. 12, Tokyo,
1975, pl. 29. 來源
Chugoku no toji [Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 11, Tokyo, 山中商會，大阪，1923年
1996, col. pl. 23.
永青文庫，東京
展覽
《中國朝鮮古美術展觀》，山中商會，大阪，1923
年，編號136
《新館完成 紀念特別展覽会图版目錄》，京都国立
博物館，京都，1966年，編號303
出版
《世界陶磁全集》，卷12，東京，1956年，圖版52
《陶器全集 清朝の官窯》，卷16，東京，1958年，
圖版11
《陶磁大系 清の官窯》，卷46，東京，1973年，圖8
《陶器講座 中国》，卷12，東京，1975年，圖29
《中國の陶磁 清の官窯》，卷11，東京，1996年，
彩圖版23

The present lot illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu
[Ceramic Art of the World], vol. 12, Tokyo, 1956,
pl. 52.
本拍品錄於《世界陶磁全集》，卷12，東京，1956
年，圖版52
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