A MAGNIFICENT MOULDED CELADON-GLAZED VASE, TIANQIUPING
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A MAGNIFICENT MOULDED CELADON-GLAZED VASE, TIANQIUPING

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A MAGNIFICENT MOULDED CELADON-GLAZED VASE, TIANQIUPING
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The globular body is finely decorated with two broad friezes of taotie masks and archaistic scrollwork, divided by a thinner band around the widest part of the body containing further scrolls and four yinyang symbols at the cardinal points, and below another band with stylised dragons, all framed by triangular lappets above the base and below the tall neck, the mouth rim encircled by a smaller taotie frieze, covered overall in an even rich sea-green glaze with 'orange-peel' texture
21 3/4 in. (55.3 cm.) high, box
來源
T. T. Tsui
出版
The Tsui Museum of Art - Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 35.

拍品專文

Previously sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1995, lot 736A.

No other Qianlong-period vase of this pattern appears to have been published, although its Yongzheng prototype was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 April 2003, lot 170.

The present vase is an excellent example of the effect that could be created by using the intaglio form of decoration on a monochrome porcelain vessel. The technique allows the details of the elaborate crisp decoration around the body to be highlighted by the thin translucent glaze pooling in the deeper recesses to provide a contrast of colour tone, thereby creating two shades of green, while accentuating the dense archaistic design on the body and neck.

Cf. another very fine Qianlong-marked celadon-glazed double-gourd vase decorated in the same way, included in the Christie's London Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 1993, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 71.

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