Lot 2911
2911
A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CELADON-GLAZED RECTANGULAR JARDINIERE
A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CELADON-GLAZED RECTANGULAR JARDINIERE
A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CELADON-GLAZED RECTANGULAR JARDINIERE
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A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CELADON-GLAZED RECTANGULAR JARDINIERE

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CELADON-GLAZED RECTANGULAR JARDINIERE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The jardinière is superbly potted with flared sides rising to a rounded mouth rim, moulded on the exterior with a wide raised band to the mid-section and another raised band above the six bracket feet. It is covered overall in an even pale sea-green glaze, with the reign mark inscribed on the centre of the underside base.
14 5⁄8 in. (37.3 cm.) long
Provenance
The J.M. Hu (1911-1995), Zande Lou Collection
Literature
Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. III, Hong Kong, 1950, pl. 122
Exhibited
Shanghai Museum, Beijing Museum, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Qing Imperial Monochromes. The Zande Lou Collection, 2005, Catalogue, pp. 60-61, no. 13

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Lot Essay

The present jardinière is one of the finest jardinières and celadon-glazed vessels made during the Yongzheng period, in fact, no other identical jardinière of this design and glaze colour appears to have been published.

Large-sized rectangular jardinières of this type were used for artistically arranged plants at the palaces. A painting by the Qianlong-period court painter Jin Tingbiao shows a similar monochrome rectangular jardinière holding narcissus plants grown among scholar’s rocks; illustrated in The Enchanting Splendor of Vases and Planters: A Special Exhibition of Flower Vessels from Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 2014, p. 63. For another similar Yongzheng monochrome rectangular jardinière, see a robin’s egg-glazed example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated ibid., no. I-16.

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