A VERY FINE AND RARE ARCHAISTIC TEADUST-GLAZED VASE, HU

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A VERY FINE AND RARE ARCHAISTIC TEADUST-GLAZED VASE, HU
INCISED QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The globular body is moulded with three sets of bow-string ribs and with three evenly spaced rams' heads at the shoulder below the broad waisted neck, the rich speckled eel's-skin glaze with areas of chestnut around the rim and highlighting the relief decoration
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high

Provenance

The T. Y. Chao Collection, sold Hong Kong, 18 November 1986, lot 99. The Ira and Nancy Koger Collection, sold New York, 27 November 1990, lot 34.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 28 April 1992, lot 89.

The teadust glaze was very much favoured for the decoration of archaistic vessels, as the high-fired iron oxide glaze varied in tone from dark green to olive green, simulating the colour and patina of archaic bronze.

A Qianlong-marked vase of this size and form but covered in a Ru-type glaze was included in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Monochrome-glaze Porcelain, 1981, Catalogue, no. 88; and another vase with a crackled glaze from the Walters Collection, is illustrated by S. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, col. pl. LXXVII.

(US$130,000-190,000)

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