Lot 120

A ROBINS-EGG GLAZED 'LANTERN' VASE SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 GBP

bidding is closed

Description

of ovoid form supported on a short spreading foot and rising to a short waisted neck, set at the shoulder with a pair of inverted vase-shaped handles and covered overall in a rich speckled turquoise-blue glaze

Provenance

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27th April 1993, lot 87.

Catalogue Note

A Daoguang vase of this form, also known as denglong (lantern) zun is included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, pl. 124, and another from the collection of Simon Kwan was included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1983, cat.no. 81. See also a similar vase sold in our New York rooms, 23rd September 1995, lot 438; and another sold at Christie's New York, 24th March 2004, lot 236.

The present vase is following Qianlong prototypes in this form and glaze; see one illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 923; and one in the Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum, published in Keitokuchin jiki, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 88 bottom left.