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VARIOUS PROPERTIES

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     A RARE PAIR OF CELADON-GLAZED FLOWER VASES
     YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD
     (1723-1735)

     清雍正 豆青釉插瓶一對 六字篆書款

     Each vase has a compressed pear-shaped body supported on a short slightly tapering foot, covered overall
     in a lustrous glaze of soft celadon tone, thinning along the mouth rim and pooling around the foot ring.

     2æ in. (7 cm.) high, wood stand           (2)

     £150,000-200,000                          $230,000-300,000
                                                €210,000-270,000

     PROVENANCE:

     Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 10 June 1997, lot 83.

     Compare the present lot to a very similar Yongzheng mark and period fower holder in the Percival David
     Collection at the British Museum in London, published by Rosemary Scott in The Illustrated Catalogue of
     Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1989, p. 57.
     Also see a celadon-glazed example with a Qianlong mark, decorated with fower scrolls, in the National
     Palace Museum in Taiwan, illustrated in the Museum’s exhibition Qingdai Danse You Ciqi Tezhan, Taipei,
     1981, cat. no. 93.

     來源: 1997年6月10日於香港蘇富比拍賣, 拍品第83號
     參考一件大維德爵士舊藏雍正插瓶,現藏於大英博物館,收錄於1989年倫
     敦出版,蘇玫瑰撰寫的《The Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome
     Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art》,第57頁。另,臺北國
     立故宮博物院藏一件乾隆仿龍泉三孔瓶,載於1981年臺北出版的《清代單色
     釉瓷器特展目錄》,圖版93號。

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