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5 avril 2014

A robin's egg blue lantern vase, Incised seal mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735)

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Lot 3089. A robin's egg blue lantern vase, Incised seal mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 24.2 cm., 9 1/2 in. Estimate 700,000 — 900,000 HKDLot sold 875,000 HKD (82,374 EUR). Photo Sotheby's

the ovoid body rising to a waisted neck and flared rim, supported on a slightly splayed foot, covered on the exterior with an opaque turquoise-blue glaze of robin's-egg type suffused overall with finely mottled greyish-purple, the base incised with a four-character seal mark all beneath the glaze, the unglazed foot dressed in a brown wash.

Note: This ‘lantern’ shape is more commonly known with vase-shaped flanges on either side, and originated in the Yongzheng period when it was made with guan-type and ge-type glazes, but in the Qianlong period it became a common robin’s-egg glaze form (see lot 3091 for a Qianlong example). Vases of this type, but with applied handles, include one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1986, cat. no. 93; one exhibited in Ethereal Elegance. Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing. The Huaihaitang Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007, cat. no. 65; another published in Xiong Liao, Gems of the Official Kilns, Taipei, 1993, pl. 144; and a fourth example in the Meiyintang collection, sold in these rooms, 4th April 2012, lot 6. Compare a Qianlong mark and period red-glazed vase of this form and also without handles, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Palace Museum, Beijing, 1999, pl. 34.

Sotheby'sFine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 april 2014

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