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拍品專文
The beauty of Song dynasty glazes was greatly admired by the emperors of the Qing dynasty, and the potters at the imperial Jingdezhen kilns were charged with the task of reproducing these glazes on porcelain. The glaze and shape seen on the present lot is an interpretation of Guan ware, one of the most highly sought after and treasured ware of the Song dynasty.
One example of the Song prototype is a Guan vase dated to the Southern Song period, of similar shape as the present vase but with a more compressed body, and covered in a similar crackled celadon glaze but of glassier texture, in the British Museum Collection and illustrated in Song Ceramics, Asahi Shimbun, 1999, no. 63.
On these Song prototypes, the glaze thins to a mushroom colour at the mouth rim while the unglazed foot exposes the purplish-brown body. On the present Qing vase, however, the foot is deliberately applied with a brown wash in imitation of the 'purple mouth and iron foot' characteristic of Guan wares.
Compare to a Yongzheng-marked vase of same shape and similar glaze but with a whitish tinge, in the Wang Xing Lou Collection, illustrated in Imperial Perfection: The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors , Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 210-1, no. 80. Another similar vase, but bearing a Qianlong reign mark, is in the Zhuyuetang Collection and illustrated in Shimmering Colours, Hong Kong, 2005, no. 98.
One example of the Song prototype is a Guan vase dated to the Southern Song period, of similar shape as the present vase but with a more compressed body, and covered in a similar crackled celadon glaze but of glassier texture, in the British Museum Collection and illustrated in Song Ceramics, Asahi Shimbun, 1999, no. 63.
On these Song prototypes, the glaze thins to a mushroom colour at the mouth rim while the unglazed foot exposes the purplish-brown body. On the present Qing vase, however, the foot is deliberately applied with a brown wash in imitation of the 'purple mouth and iron foot' characteristic of Guan wares.
Compare to a Yongzheng-marked vase of same shape and similar glaze but with a whitish tinge, in the Wang Xing Lou Collection, illustrated in Imperial Perfection: The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors , Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 210-1, no. 80. Another similar vase, but bearing a Qianlong reign mark, is in the Zhuyuetang Collection and illustrated in Shimmering Colours, Hong Kong, 2005, no. 98.