A FINE COPPER-RED GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING

DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)

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A FINE COPPER-RED GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
Sturdily potted, the pear-shaped body rising to a flared mouth, supported on a low splayed foot, covered overall with an even deep raspberry-red glaze, the interior and base with a transparent glaze
11 3/4in. (29.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 17 November 1975, lot 157; and sold again at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16th November 1988, lot 340

Exhibited

On Loan at the Dorchester International Ceramics Fair, London, June, 1986

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Lot Essay

Copper-red vases of this form were made from the Yongzheng period through to the late Qing period. Compare with two Daoguang-marked examples, the first included in the exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, illustrated in the Catalogue, pl. 83, and later in the Yangzhitang Collection, sold at Christie's Singapore, 30 March 1997, lot 323. The second vase is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics from the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, p. 233, no. 337.

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