A FINE AND RARE AUBERGINE-GLAZED ARCHAISTIC VESSEL, JUE

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A FINE AND RARE AUBERGINE-GLAZED ARCHAISTIC VESSEL, JUE
INCISED QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The tripod vessel is thinly potted in the shape of an archaistic jue, with two short posts at the mouth and an angular handle to one side, all under a rich iridescent dark purple glaze stopping at the base of the feet to reveal the white body
4 1/4 in. (10.5 cm.) high, box

Provenance

The Jingguantang Collection, sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 563.

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, Hong Kong, 1994, pl. 45.

Lot Essay

Other very similar aubergine-glazed jue vessels are published: one is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, 1976, vol. I, no. 1079; one is illustrated in The Baur Collection, Geneve, Catalogue, 1969, vol. II, Catalogue, no. A473; a pair was included in the 1923 exhibition in the Kunstgewerbe Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Chinesische Keramik, and illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 937 and 938; and another from the Robert Chang Collection, was sold in these Rooms, 2 November 1999, lot 507.

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