A RED-GLAZED YUHUCHUN VASE

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A RED-GLAZED YUHUCHUN VASE
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The elegantly potted pear-shaped vase rises from a spreading foot to a slender neck and flaring mouth, the exterior covered in a rich and lustrous red glaze darkening below the mouth rim and above the foot, the interior and base are covered with a transparent blue-tinged glaze 9 1/4 in. (23.6 cm.) high, box

Exhibited

Christie's London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June 1993, Catalogue, no. 38.

Lot Essay

Vases of this date and shape covered in a deep 'sacrificial red' glaze are in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, 1989, p. 287, no. 116; in the Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum, illustrated in Keitokuchin Jiki, 1982, p. 83; in the Tsui Museum of Art, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, 1995, pl. 24; and from the T. Y. Chao Collection, included in the Exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, 1973, Catalogue no. 5. A Qianlong-marked example in the Tokyo National Museum, is in the Illustrated Catalogue: Chinese Ceramics, 1965, fig. 660; and an unmarked one of 18th Century date is in the Baur Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. A292.

(US$80,000-100,000)

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