Important Chinese Art including Imperial Jades from the De An Tang Collection
Important Chinese Art including Imperial Jades from the De An Tang Collection
Property of a Gentleman 士紳珍藏
A very rare massive Ru-type handled vase, fanghu Seal mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正 仿汝釉弦紋貫耳方壺 《大清雍正年製》款
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Property of a Gentleman
A very rare massive Ru-type handled vase, fanghu
Seal mark and period of Yongzheng
士紳珍藏
清雍正 仿汝釉弦紋貫耳方壺 《大清雍正年製》款
of square section with rounded corners, the pear-shaped body supported on a high double-pierced foot with a lipped edge, the slopped shoulder decorated with two pairs of horizontal raised fillets, the neck flanked by a pair of facetted lug handles with raised edges, all beneath a lipped mouth, covered inside and out with a finely-crackled greyish-blue glaze, transmuting to a more intense shade of blue in the recesses, the countersunk base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue
63.5 cm
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1980, lot 105.
An important Asian collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8th April 2011, lot 3014.
香港蘇富比1980年5月20日，編號105
亞洲重要收藏
香港蘇富比2011年4月8日，編號3014
The present vase is remarkable for its large size and lustrous even glaze and no other vase of this type appears to have been published. The Qing period saw a flowering of monochrome-glazed porcelains and under the Yongzheng Emperor, many glaze types found on earlier stonewares were revived. The greyish-blue tones of this vase are inspired by the celebrated 'Ru' ware from Henan, the official ware of the Northern Song and the rarest of all the Song dynasty official wares.
For smaller Yongzheng vases of this form and glaze, see two sold in these rooms, one 23rd October 2005, lot 319; and the other sold three times, 29th November 1976, lot 525, again 21st May 1979, lot 110, and again, 3rd May 1994, lot 110. Compare further smaller vases of this form, with Yongzheng reign marks and of the period; such as and Ge-type glaze in the National Palace Museum, included in the Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, cat. no. 63; a guan-type glazed example sold twice in these rooms, 14th November 1983, lot 135, and again, 29th April 1997, lot 577; and another with a guan-type glaze from the Cleveland Museum of Art, sold at Christie's New York, 21st September 2000, lot 360.
For the prototype of this vase, which was originally inspired by the archaic bronze hu, see the Longquan celadon example of similar form included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum. Lung-ch'uan Ware, Ko Ware and Other Wares, Taipei, 1974, pl. 1.
此方壺器形碩麗，釉色瑩潤，遍覽群書未見一例。單色釉瓷器盛於清代，尤雍正一朝，歷代陶瓷種種用釉皆得復興。此器釉色灰青泛藍，承河南汝瓷之韻，汝窰乃北宋官窰，其成器珍罕稀貴，素有「汝窰為魁」之稱。
形、釉俱似之雍正例有二，尺寸稍小，皆曾售於香港蘇富比，其一，2005年10月23日，編號319，其二，曾三度易手，分別為1976年11月29日，編號525，1979年5月21日，編號110，及1994年5月3日，編號110。另有同形例若干，雍正年款，如一仿哥釉例，台北故宮藏，曾展於《清康雍乾名瓷》，台北，1986年，編號63。參考一仿官釉例，先後售於香港蘇富比1983年11月14日，編號135，及1997年4月29日，編號577。另一仿官釉例，克利夫蘭藝術博物館出，售於紐約佳士得2000年9月21日，編號360。
此方壺原型可溯至古青銅壺，比較一龍泉青釉例，形制相若，錄於《故宮宋瓷圖錄：龍泉窰、哥窰及其它各窰》，台北，1974年，圖版1。