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A FINE AND RARE TEADUST-GLAZED OVIFORM VASE
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    HK$3,500,000 - HK$4,500,000
  • ($452,982 - $582,405)

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Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
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Lot Description

A FINE AND RARE TEADUST-GLAZED OVIFORM VASE
QIANLONG IMPRESSED SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The vase well potted with an oviform body rising to a short cylindrical neck, entirely covered in an even and rich olive-green glaze speckled with yellow, the glaze pales at the rim and stops at the brown-dressed foot, the reign mark washed over in a transparent dark-brown glaze
5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm.) high, box


清乾隆 茶葉末釉梨形瓶 六字篆書印款

瓶直口，鼓腹下收，圈足，造型規整。通體飾廠官釉，底印「大清乾隆年製」篆書款。

「廠官釉」因黃、褐色相間，宛若茶色，亦名茶葉末釉。此器造型、釉色均為是時景德鎮御窰的創新作品。

此器為張宗憲之舊藏，1993年6月2-14日於倫敦佳士得張宗憲瓷器珍藏展中展出，展品52號。

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Provenance

The Robert Chang Collection

Exhibited

Christie's London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June 1993, Catalogue no. 52

Lot Notes

Other examples of teadust-glazed vases of this form include one exhibited at the Arts Club of Chicago, Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf, 1970, no. c73, and subsequently sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 23 March 1993, lot 741; and another sold at Sotheby's London, 12 June 1990, lot 283. Compare also to a slightly larger Yongzheng-marked teadust vase of similar shape but with fluted sides, from the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 302, pl. 131.

Vases of related form covered in other monochrome glazes have also been recorded. Cf. two ru-type glazed examples, the first from the Robert Chang collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot 503; and the other from the W. W. Winkworth collection, sold at Sotheby's London, 12 December 1972, lot 149. A sacrificial-blue glazed vase was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition of Monochrome Ceramics of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 43. Kangxi-marked vases of this shape but of slightly different size have been published, one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, with a 'winter-green' glaze, is illustrated in op. cit., Hong Kong, 1989, p. 148, pl. 131; an example covered in a celadon glaze was included in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Monochrome Glaze Porcelain, 1981, Catalogue no. 75; and another with a lavender-blue glaze, from the Zhuyuetang Collection, exhibited at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shimmering Colours, 2005, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 70.

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