A fine celadon-glazed double-gourd vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795)

22 mars 2020

A fine celadon-glazed double-gourd vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795)

A FINE CELADON-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG

Lot 3020. A fine celadon-glazed double-gourd vase, seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); 32.3 cm., 12 3/4 in. Estimate 500,000 — 700,000 HKD. Lot Sold 3,140,000. Photo Sotheby's

robustly potted with a compressed globular lower bulb, surmounted by a slightly smaller upper bulb gently rising to a narrow mouth, the exterior covered evenly in a lustrous glaze of a soft celadon tone, the recessed celadon-glazed base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark.

Provenance: Collection of Frederick J. & Antoinette H. Van Slyke.
Sotheby's New York, 31st May 1989, lot 167.
S. Marchant & Son Ltd., London, 1992.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27th April 1993, lot 80.

Note: A closely related vase with cover in the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, was included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 69, and is illustrated in Zhongguo qingdai guanyao ciqi, Shanghai, 2003, p. 341; and another is published in Chinese Porcelain. The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. 1, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 160. See also a vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Suzanne G. Valenstein, The Hertzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992, pl. 98; and a smaller example published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 160.

Compare also a vase from the Jingguantang collection, included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 212, and illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, vol. IV, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 37, together with its pair, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3rd November 1996, lot 571. A slightly larger example was sold in our London rooms, 12th July 2006, lot 142; and another was sold in these rooms, 29th April 1997, lot 581.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 april 2011