PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND PRIVATE COLLECTION
A LARGE TEADUST-GLAZED VASE, QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
Auction Closed
September 23, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A LARGE TEADUST-GLAZED VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
清乾隆 茶葉末釉鋪首耳弦紋壺 《大清乾隆年製》款
of archaistic hu form, stoutly potted, the ovoid body rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck flaring at the rim, set to the shoulder with a pair of beast mask-handles suspending fixed rings, the body further molded with three evenly spaced bands of double rings, covered overall in a deep olive-green speckled glaze deepening to dark brown on the raised edges of the handles, the base incised with a six-character seal mark
Height 21¼ in., 54 cm
American Private Collection, acquired in the early 1930s, and thence by descent.
來源
美國私人收藏，得於1930年代初，此後家族傳承
The present vase successfully integrates the unique quality of the teadust glaze with the ancient hu form in a nod to archaism. Only a few other vases of this type and impressive size appear to be known. See, for example, a vase from the E.T. Chow Collection exhibited in One Man's Taste: Treasures from the Lakeside Pavilion, Galleries of the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1988, cat. no. C17; another sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 23rd October 2005, lot 306; and a third from the Robert B. and Beatrice C. Mayer family collection, sold at Christie's New York, 13th September 2019, lot 1103. Compare also a much smaller teadust-glazed vase of similar form sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd November 1998, lot 373.
It is rare to find Qianlong hu of this form and size in other monochrome glaze, although a guan-type example, formerly in the collection of Colonel Michael Friedsam, is recorded in the Brooklyn Museum, New York, acc. no. 32.1244 and exhibited in the museum's 2018 exhibition Infinite Blue. A number of large Qianlong blue and white hu, decorated with a flower scroll design but without the molded bands, are also known, such as a vase from the Tianminlou Collection, included in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part I, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 58. This type of large vase can also be found decorated in doucai, such as one in the Chang Foundation, published in James Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pl. 161.