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Lot Essay
Previously sold in our New York Rooms, 16 September 1999, lot 366.
A similar vase is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, no. 938; and another was included in the exhibition National Treasures - Gems of China's Cultural Relics, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 16 December 1997 - 1 March 1998, pp. 352-353, where it is noted that teadust glazes were first produced during the Tang dynasty and the wares were made at the Yaozhou kilns. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, teadust-glazed wares were revived at the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen. Due to the different firing atmosphere during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods, the glazes were of different colours; those of Yongzheng date being more yellow in tone and those of Qianlong date more greenish.
A similar vase is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, no. 938; and another was included in the exhibition National Treasures - Gems of China's Cultural Relics, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 16 December 1997 - 1 March 1998, pp. 352-353, where it is noted that teadust glazes were first produced during the Tang dynasty and the wares were made at the Yaozhou kilns. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, teadust-glazed wares were revived at the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen. Due to the different firing atmosphere during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods, the glazes were of different colours; those of Yongzheng date being more yellow in tone and those of Qianlong date more greenish.