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26 septembre 2012

An elegant guan-type ovoid vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795)

An elegant Guan-type ovoid vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795)

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Lot 102. An elegant Guan-type ovoid vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); 13.4 cm., 5 1/4 in. Estimate: 1,500,000 - 2,500,000 HKD. Lot sold 1,820,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's 2012

well potted with refined simplicity, the curved ovoid body rising from a flat recessed base tapering at the neck and mouth, covered overall in a fine caesious glaze, draining at the mouthrim to reveal a pale brown mouth faithfully imitating Song dynasty guan ware, the foot dressed in a dark brown wash, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue

Provenance: Acquired in Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s.

Exhibited: Zandelou Qingdai guanyao danseyou ciqi/Qing Imperial Monochromes. The Zandelou Collection, Shanghai Museum, Beijing Museum and Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005, cat. no. 35. 

Literature: Helen D. Ling and E.T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. IV, Hong Kong, 1950, pl. 174.

Note: This elegant form was devised in the Kangxi period, and was rediscovered, with minor variations in proportion, in the Qianlong reign. Two similar celadon-glazed vases from the Qing court collection, both of Kangxi mark and period, one with, the other without crackle, are in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pls. 127 and 129; another vase of Kangxi mark and period with a celadon glaze in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, was included in the museum’s exhibition Qingdai danse you ciqi tezhan [Special exhibition of monochrome glazed porcelain of the Qing dynasty], Taipei, 1981, cat. no. 75. 

A similar crackled vase of Qianlong mark and period was sold in our London rooms, 26th April 1966, lot 162, and again 12th December 1972, lot 149, from the collection of W.W. Winkworth; another – or perhaps the same – Ru-type example was sold in these rooms, 29th October 1991, lot 95, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2nd November 1999, lot 503, from the collection of Robert Chang; two other related vases of Qianlong mark and period, one with, the other without crackle, from the Evelyn Annenberg Hall collection, were sold at Christie’s New York, 29th March 2006, lots 114 and 115. 

Sotheby's. Qing Imperial Monochromes from the J.M. Hu Collection, Hong Kong, 09 Oct 2012

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