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A VERY RARE YUAN UNDERGLAZE-COPPER-RED VASE,

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A VERY RARE YUAN UNDERGLAZE-COPPER-RED VASE,
YUHUCHUNPING
CIRCA 1300

The pear-shaped body with the trumpet-neck resting on a wedge-shaped foot, freely carved to the side with three carp swimming amid lily-pads, framed by single line borders, covered overall with a translucent bubble-suffused glaze of bluish-green tone with bright crimson splashes, the foot unglazed exposing the pale grey ware burnt orange at the edges (broken at neck, foot chip restored)
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high

Lot Essay

The use of copper-red on Yuan dynasty underglaze-decorated wares was unique in featuring largely reserve-decorated designs or decorated splashes. Cf. a stemcup decorated with splashes illustrated in Underglaze Blue & Red, col. pl. 29; two yuhuchunping, one decorated with splashes from the C. P. Lin Collection, the other with a reserve-decorated floral scroll on a brilliant red ground from the Percival David Foundation, were included in the Commemorative Exhibition, Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration at the Percival David Foundation, 1992, Catalogue, nos. 16 and 17.

(US$2,000-2,500)

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