TWO TEADUST-GLAZED VESSELS

18TH/19TH CENTURY

Details

TWO TEADUST-GLAZED VESSELS
18TH/19TH CENTURY
One a lobed octagonal bowl covered allover with a glaze of finely mottled dark olive-green color shading to a paler tone on the rim, the other a stem bowl covered overall with a finely mottled yellow and dark olive-green glaze thinning to mushroom on the mouth rim and the bow-string band encircling the spreading pedestal foot, a Zhi ben tang mark incised through the glaze inside the foot
6½ and 6 1/8 in. (16.5 and 15.6 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

H. M. M. Collection.

Lot Essay

The mark, Zhi ben tang, inscribed in the glaze inside the foot of of the stem bowl, may be translated, 'Hall of the root of the trees'. The same mark can be seen on a teadust-glazed stem bowl of somewhat different form in the Weishaupt Collection illustrated by G. Avitable, From the Dragon's Treasure, London, 1987, p. 96, no. 135, where the author notes that the mark is "connected with a noble of the Jiaqing/Daoguang period, and is not an imperial hallmark".

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