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A CLAIR-DE-LUNE GLAZED ‘HUNDRED-RIB’ JAR ᪺༒ᶑ ૱Ⳉ㕳Ⅿᚇ➙
KANGXI PERIOD (1662- 1722)
ϝᬝ
Sturdily potted with broad rounded shoulders beneath a lipped
ᚚទ☆՞Ⅷ⻦ ᙻ ჺջݣ⻦
rim, the jar is moulded on the exterior with vertical narrow
ribs, and covered overall with an even sky-blue glaze with the ᫉⦵⥊㯝⒝⏜ᯒ卿஋⫒卿ិ⭬Ӵ㛑⯍ᄓ卿ം೅㱈⏜ᠪᢣ⡠卿ݤ
exception of the base. ം⎐ᙼ഍⻤㞏卿ംᄓὍ㞏ǯ ഍⻤㞏ⰰᲶ㪿ቼ⏖卿ַ഍㬪Ԡ⻤卿
11 ¬ in. (29.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
ᘢݯलǯං㇦໿ᇪង卿ֿ⯍ᄮᾭងᏝईߪ㞒㇬卿അ⊇ᙻᙔᏑ⊇
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-64,000 ݰ卿଍⁒♎㯸അ㇦ᙻ⠢ႛཎ։ǯ ᫉⦵ᆨ߰㖅ഌ卿㙁௛ݱ㪿卿㞏
ⰰ⡵㪿卿ἃᄮᾭ഍⻤㞏ഌ଍Ԡջヿǯ
PROVENANCE
A Japanese private collection, acquired in the 1980s ⯝᫉⦵⏟ᬘ卿㙁௛Ǯㅛ㱈Ǯཨ༿ࣿ㞏ⰰᄃԢ⏟ऱԠӬ׾⻦ᙻ࢈՗
ᘢ༈ࢷ⁒㩴卿㖊ᙻǶᘢ༈ࢷ⁒㩴⻦ऒ㪃≢㏱ᙠ㚁ⵧ ࣍ՀǷ卿
Clair-de-lune-glazed wares were highly prized in the Qing
dynasty and the colour was strictly reserved for imperial ࢈՗卿 ჺ卿㮰 卿⤔⽚ ǯऔӬ⏟ַ׾ἃԋஇஇ།ࢷ⁒
porcelain. It was first developed in the Xuande period, yet it 㱦㱦⻦卿㖊ᙻǶԋஇஇ།ࢷ⁒㱦㱦⻦ᙔ⁒Ⓔ♾ऐᝧ ≢଍࣍
did not gain prominence until the Kangxi period and mostly ᳖ջǷ卿ӳᱡ卿 ჺ卿㮰 卿⤔⽚ ǯ ☆՞ᘘ⻦ԋ卿ᝳӬ׾
seen on scholar’s objects. An almost identical clair-de-lune ἃ⫽ዃᛌ⯠⻦卿ᙻ ჺ ᝲ ᚚ਑ᙻ⡥⡙⼖༛ᬘ卿ᐽ৅ ⽚厎
jar is in the Palace Museum collection, illustrated in Gutaoci
ziliao xuancui (Selected Information Regarding the Beijing औӬ׾㩠⡥⡙+ + -BMMZ $PԠ׹ᴹ卿਑ᙻ㲞ᳰ⼖༛ᬘ卿 ჺ
Palace Museum Ceramics), vol. 2, Beijing, 2005, p. 127, no. ᝲ ᚚ卿ᐽ৅ ⽚ǯ
105. Another similar example is illustrated in Studies of the
Collections of the National Museum of China- Ceramics- Qing
Dynasty, Shanghai, 2007, p. 48, no. 30. Two similar examples
sold at auction, one at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 June 1985, lot
29; another at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 April 2017, lot 1111.

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