A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE GREEN-ENAMELLED OCTAFOIL TRIPOD BRUSH-WASHER
A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE GREEN-ENAMELLED OCTAFOIL TRIPOD BRUSH-WASHER

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A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE GREEN-ENAMELLED OCTAFOIL TRIPOD BRUSH-WASHER
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The washer has low flaring sides moulded as eight petals below a rounded everted rim, raised on three short feet applied to the sides of the base, all covered in an opaque green enamel of an unusual, bright tone, with the reign mark written in a square under a clear glaze
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) diam., box
展覽
Christie's London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June 1993, Catalogue, no. 75.

拍品專文

Previously sold in these Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 675. No other example of a similar enamelled washer appears to be published.

The colour of the green enamel is most unusual and it has been suggested that it was produced during one of the periods of experimentation with new glaze colours which took place at the Imperial kilns in the 18th century. This particular glaze was of such technical complexity that it never went into regular production.

For an illustration of the Song prototype of this form, cf. a guan-type octafoil dish in the Percival David Foundation, London, A46, illustrated by M. Tregear, Song Ceramics, p. 136, fig. 175. A Yongzheng example, of the same form as the present lot, but covered in a guan-type glaze, from the Kempe Collection, no. 201, is in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, no. 274.
(US$50,000-60,000)