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Lot Essay
The present jardinière is exquisite for its elegant small form and beautiful flambé glaze. Jardinières of this shape bearing four-character Yongzheng reign mark are extremely rare.
According to palace archival records, on the 13th day of the 9th month of Yongzheng tenth year (1732), the Emperor ordered Nian Xiyao to produce jardinières and trays in sacrificial red, sacrificial blue, Jun, and Ru glazes. He also ordered that wooden samples be presented first for the Emperor's approval. The present lot is possibly one of the jardinières in Jun glazes mentioned in this record.
A flambé-glazed flower pot with Yongzheng mark and of related form, but without horizontal ribs, is in the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Rose Kerr, in Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, no. 61. Compare also a sacrificial blue glazed jardinière of similar form from the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Gu taoci ziliao xuancui, vol. 2, Beijing, 2005, no.170.
According to palace archival records, on the 13th day of the 9th month of Yongzheng tenth year (1732), the Emperor ordered Nian Xiyao to produce jardinières and trays in sacrificial red, sacrificial blue, Jun, and Ru glazes. He also ordered that wooden samples be presented first for the Emperor's approval. The present lot is possibly one of the jardinières in Jun glazes mentioned in this record.
A flambé-glazed flower pot with Yongzheng mark and of related form, but without horizontal ribs, is in the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by Rose Kerr, in Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, no. 61. Compare also a sacrificial blue glazed jardinière of similar form from the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Gu taoci ziliao xuancui, vol. 2, Beijing, 2005, no.170.