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PROPERTY FROM THE MICHAEL BARBER COLLECTION Vases of this unusual shape, ganlanping, or ‘olive-stone’ are rare. The
form itself was much admired in all three of the great imperial reigns
165 of the Qing dynasty - Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. During the
A LIVER-RED-GLAZED ‘OLIVE-STONE’ VASE, GANLANPING Kangxi period the shape was more attenuated, as exemplified by a
Qianlong underglaze-blue seal mark and of the Period pale-blue-glazed vase illustrated by John Ayers, The Baur Collection,
The unusual shape of pleasing bombe profile at the mid-section above vol. 3, Geneva, 1972, no. A 328, which has a tall slender neck rising
a waisted foot and beneath an elegantly spreading trumpet neck, to a slightly everted mouth rim. Another with a copper-red glaze from
glazed in an attractive liver-red glaze that is a strong and vibrant tone the Meiyintang Collection, Part IV was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
to one side but thinning to a more grey-toned red on the other side, 9 October 2012, lot 2; and another with an apple-green glaze and
the interior neck also with some liver-red bleeding of the glaze, the Qianlong seal mark engraved to the base, and formerly in the Edward
white-glazed base centered by a six-character horizontal-format seal. T. Chow Collection is illustrated in, Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko
12 1/4in (31.1cm) high Tianminlou Collection, Part II, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, p. 222,
no. 154.
$7,000 - 10,000
The somewhat more robust shape seen in the Yongzheng and
清乾隆 紅釉橄欖瓶 《大清乾隆年製》款 Qianlong periods has a shorter neck and more widely flared mouth, as
well as a slight flare at the foot. Such Yongzheng-marked vases include
a blue and white example in the Palace Collection, Beijing, illustrated
Provenance in Qingdai Yuyao ciqi, vol. 1, Beijing 2005, pp. 80-1, no. 29; another
William Staines, Weymouth, England, UK (by repute) with a copper-red glaze ibid., pp. 38-39, no. 9, which is almost the
A label to the underside with the (possible) initials MT may be those same height as our example; and a blue-glazed example from the
Gordon Collection, sold at Christies New York, 24 March 2011, lot
of a member of Thornhill family of England, UK. 1157. Another superb and slightly larger example under a brilliant blue
glaze and with a Yongzheng mark, see Sotheby’s, London, Important
來源 Chinese Porcelain, 8 July 1974, lot 336.
據藏家，William Staines, 麻省韋茅斯
For a rare Yongzheng seal-marked olive-shaped vase with a superb
lustrous celadon glaze but with the unusual additon of tubular handles at
the neck, see Bonhams, Hong Kong, 3 December 2015, lot 22.
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