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拍品专文
The combination of celadon green with underglaze cobalt blue and underglaze copper red is relatively rare, no doubt because it was so difficult to fire successfully. This magnificent vase is not only exceptionally large, its copper-red decoration is of particularly fine color. With the coming of the Kangxi reign came renewed imperial interest in porcelain and a demand for high quality and variety. In the early years of the reign the potters revived the combination of underglaze blue and underglaze copper red on single pieces, and with the re-establishment of the imperial kiln complex court demand for innovation resulted in molded surface decoration and the use of areas of celadon green being added to this already challenging palette.
The favored decorative theme in this technique is landscape with trees, mountains, water and molded, celadon-green rocks. One vase is comparable although smaller (44.4cm.) trumpet-mouth vase in the Seikado Bunko, Tokyo, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, Tokyo, 1983, vol. 15, Qing, p. 146, no. 138, but the larger size of the current vase allows for an even more dramatic, and more elegantly coherent arrangement of the elements. Compare also with a vase from Dr. Sheldon Baddock Collection sold twice at Christie's, first in London, 9 July 1979, lot 118 and a second time in New York, 26 March 2003, lot 260.
The favored decorative theme in this technique is landscape with trees, mountains, water and molded, celadon-green rocks. One vase is comparable although smaller (44.4cm.) trumpet-mouth vase in the Seikado Bunko, Tokyo, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, Tokyo, 1983, vol. 15, Qing, p. 146, no. 138, but the larger size of the current vase allows for an even more dramatic, and more elegantly coherent arrangement of the elements. Compare also with a vase from Dr. Sheldon Baddock Collection sold twice at Christie's, first in London, 9 July 1979, lot 118 and a second time in New York, 26 March 2003, lot 260.