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A FINE AND RARE LARGE TEADUST-GLAZED VASE, HU
THE PROPERTY OF A FAR EASTERN GENTLEMAN
A FINE AND RARE LARGE TEADUST-GLAZED VASE, HU

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A FINE AND RARE LARGE TEADUST-GLAZED VASE, HU
QIANLONG IMPRESSED SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The flattened pear-shaped body moulded with strapwork bands joining to form intaglio panels and diamond-shaped lozenges, the wide shoulders applied with a pair of loop handles formed as bird heads, covered entirely with a rich olive-green glaze thinning at the rim and on the extremities to a chestnut-brown tone
20 1/4 in. (51.4 cm.) high, box

拍品專文

Previously sold in these Rooms, 29 April 2002, lot 666.

Cf. a Qianlong teadust-glazed vase of this form in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, included in the travelling Exhibition of Chinese Art Treasures, U. S. A. 1961-62, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 198; and another with a Yongzheng mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 298, pl. 127.

While the present lot is evidently inspired by the Zhou dynasty bronze prototype of this imposing form and with strapwork design, the rich colour and texture of the teadust glaze also works exceptionally well in accentuating the theme of archaism. Apart from the teadust glaze, hu-shaped vases are found covered in other glazes, particularly Song-inspired glazes such as ge and ru-type. Compare with the large Qianlong ru-type glazed hu sold in these Rooms, 2 November 1999, lot 622.