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A VERY RARE LARGE HEXAGONAL TEADUST- ᪺㢫᢬ ༴೚㕳Վᑝ⁅ ौಧ╌ᕋטᢎ
GLAZED VASE
ϝᬝ
YONGZHENG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE
PERIOD (1723-1735) ⡥⡙⼖༛ᬘ卿 ჺ ᝲ ᚚ卿ᐽ৅ ⽚
៏⛛లᘘ⻦
The impressive elegant vase is sturdily potted with a broad
shoulder and tapered body supporting a trumpet neck rising to ≡१ݪᙹᆨ卿ᖊऑ卿ិ㯝卿ᐙ⫒卿⭬㛑᷉ᘘ卿஄㑷卿଍ᆨ┣ഌ卿
a flared rim. The vase is covered overall in an unctuous softly
ऒ᧥⛘ⴃǯ㫇᫈ងս῟ㅳཎ։≢଍ⶬ♑卿Ꮢㅳഌ։≢଍ᥑཐǯ᫉
lustrous glaze of olive-green tone imitating bronze which thins at
≡㞏ⰰ㿩⣔ᖄ㫓ַⳍ⶟⡿ថ卿ऒ᧥᳖㿃ǯ⋁ჺ፽ἃ㪀㉑ᙻ⎑༈ᅏ
the edges and rim. The broad ring foot is dressed in a brown wash.
ల⎏㞒଍卿ᥑἃⅧ⧎ǯ
26 in. (66 cm.) high
HK$3,500,000-5,500,000 US$450,000-700,000 ࣻ⩠ᇍ䂆Ⅷ⻦ங᱆ᮅࢷ⁒㱦ཿ㈇Ԡ㫇᫈᪪ݪᙹഌ≡ᙼ֎ড়㞏卿
ⶬ㢙Ƕ≢ݱ厍ᇍ䂆Ⅷ⻦᫓ջᚺ≢Ƿ卿࢈՗卿 ჺ卿㮰 ǯ
PROVENANCE औ⏭Ӭ։⏟ऱ଍ᆨ⎏㫇᫈᪪㬪Ɽ≡ἃ(SBOEJEJFS ⯠⻦卿→ໄႣ
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, 19 September 2002, lot 143 㿰म⧻இ⛁Ռᰲ⻱ワࢷ⁒㱦⎏卿ⶬ㢙ᙻǶ0SJFOUBM $FSBNJDT 5IF
The Songzhutang Collection
8PSME’T (SFBU $PMMFDUJPOTǷ卿࣍ 卿ែ՗卿 ჺ卿⤔⽚ 卿
It is incredibly very rare to find vases of this form and glaze ⎈㢙⽚( ǯ
bearing a Yongzheng mark and no other vase appears to have
been recorded. Teadust glazes originated in the black-glazed
wares made in Tang-dynasty kilns, but it was not until the 18th
century that this glaze was popular on imperial porcelain. The
unique appearance of teadust glaze is due to the slight under-
firing of an iron and magnesium-oxide suffused glaze, creating
fine pyroxene crystals during cooling. These give the glaze the
prized attractive greenish-brown microcrystalline appearance.
The Yongzheng Emperor seems to have admired the ‘antique’
quality that teadust glazes imparted to the porcelain on which
they were used, and the darker hued glazes are considered
among the finest, given their resemblance to prized ancient
bronzes. These glazes are sometimes called Changguan you,
‘Imperial Factory glazes’, and they are mentioned in Tang
Ying’s famous Taocheng jishi bei ji, Commemorative Stele on
Ceramic Production, of 1735.
His affinity for such pieces can be seen in examples with four-
character Yongzheng marks, such as a fish-basket jar sold at
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 April 2011, lot 3003, and an eel-skin
glazed twin-handled vase sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 31
October 1995, lot 433.
With regards to form, compare the present vase with a large
hexagonal Yongzheng-marked vase covered in a ge-type
glaze from the Xulong Collection exhibited at the Zhejiang
Museum and published in A Collection of Porcelain, Beijing,
2006, pp. 120-121. See also a blue and white vase also bearing
a Yongzheng mark held in Musée Guimet, Paris, from the
Grandidier Collection and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics,
The World’s Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, no. 164,
no. G4127.

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