YONGZHENG/QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1796)

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A RARE CRACKLED 'APPLE-GREEN'-GLAZED 'CHRYSANTHEMUM' TEAPOT AND COVER
YONGZHENG/QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1796)
The compressed body is molded with two broad bands of chrysanthemum petals radiating from the base of the shallow, similarly molded neck and from the similarly molded foot. The cover is molded en suite below the pierced finial. The exterior and base are covered with an apple-green glaze suffused with a network of fine dark crackle.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) across

Provenance

Fong Chow (1923-2012) Collection, New York.

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Lot Essay

A very similar ewer and cover, also without reign mark, which is dated to the Yongzheng period, is illustrated in Zhongguo guojia bowuguan guancang yangjiu congshu - ciqi juan, Qing dai, Shanghai, 2007, p. 110, no. 72. The shape and design continued into the Qianlong period, as represented by the celadon-glazed example with a Qianlong six-character seal mark, illustrated in An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 2-14 June 1993, no. 66, pp. 143-44.

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