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AN EXTREMELY RARE MING-STYLE DOUCAI VASE
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    HK$5,000,000 - HK$7,000,000
  • ($647,117 - $905,963)

Sale Information

Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





Lot Description

AN EXTREMELY RARE MING-STYLE DOUCAI VASE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The compressed globular body with a tall splayed foot and elongated neck rising to an everted rim, finely pencilled in Chenghua-style with an Indian lotus meander issuing full formal blooms and curled leaves, the foot encircled by a formal scroll, the translucent enamels in tones of iron-red, yellow, aubergine and green
9 3/4 in. (25 cm.) high, box


清雍正 鬥彩纒枝番蓮紋長頸瓶 雙圈雙行六字楷書款

瓶盤口，長頸，溜肩，圓腹，圈足。通體繪纏枝蓮紋，以青花弦線作邊飾，足牆飾捲草紋。底心青花雙圈內書「大清雍正年製」 楷書款。

此器為雍正仿成化瓷器中珍罕的作品。此瓶的足部雖帶清朝的特色，但觀其器型整體卻是明成化的風格，傳世品中未有所見，為孤品。

此器1980年間曾於日本大阪市立美術館「明清藝術」展中展出，展品163號，2004年4月26日於香港佳士得拍賣，拍品957號。

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Provenance

Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, The Imperial Sale, 26 April 2004, lot 957

Exhibited

Osaka Municiple Museum, Art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 1980, Catalogue, no. 163

Lot Notes

The present vase appears to be unique in its shape and pattern. The shape of this vase is derived from Chenghua prototypes although the pronounced lip and spreading base are Qing variations. A Ming dynasty example in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Wenwu Jinghua Daquan, Ceramics, 1994, p. 386, fig. 741.

The solid lotus in profile on a foliate ground in the Chenghua style appears most frequently on cups and bowls of the period. A doucai cup is illustrated in A Legacy of Chenghua, The Jingdezhen Institute of Ceramic Archaeology and the Tsui Museum of Art, 1993, p. 279, no. C95. Blue and white bowls are illustrated ibid., p. 231, no. C71, and p. 245, no. C78. The style, though less defined, can be traced back to the earlier 15th century as exemplified by a vase from the Xuande period formerly in the Palmer Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 17 January 1989, lot 572.

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