Lot 17: A POWDER-BLUE-GLAZED VASE AND TWO GLAZED SAUCER DISHES Early-Mid 18th century

A POWDER-BLUE-GLAZED VASE AND TWO GLAZED SAUCER DISHES

Early-Mid 18th century

Comprising an amphora-type oviform vase with slightly waisted reduced neck, an attractive cobalt-blue glaze with a dense pattern of plasma-like waves under the surface, stopping short of the tapering biscuit foot ring, the base and interior white glazed; a small foliate saucer with a cobalt-blue glaze to the interior below the brown-dressed rim and painted in gilt with a garden scene at the center, the reverse plain; and a small dark-purple aubergine-glazed saucer delicately molded or slip decorated under the glaze with three flying horses divided by flame scrolls at the well and possibly a single flying horse at the center, the reverse and base also glazed aubergine and with a clear-glazed foot ring. (3)


vase: 7in (17.8cm) high
foliate dish: 5 1/8in (12.8cm) diam
aubergine-glazed dish: 4 1/4in (10.9cm) diam

Vase: Neck has been reduced and polished. There is a small original kiln flaw (paste-fold) to the foot ring but unobtrusive. Some wear.


Foliate saucer: Gilding rubbed.


Aubergine saucer: A very small exterior rim chip (0.3cm). Very unusual and attractive 'flying horse' design.

十八世紀中早期 灑藍釉蘿蔔瓶 藍釉描金花石圖盤 及茄皮紫釉駿馬紋盤



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源：

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約

會費購藏，1879 年

大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今



For a very similar cobalt-blue glazed dish with foliate rim and gilt highlights from the Kangxi period and bearing a
Lu Yi Tang mark (Hall of Green Ripples) from the British Museum, see Soame Jenyns,
Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1965, Pl. XLII, no. 1. Another cobalt-blue cup and saucer with gilt floral decoration is attributed to the Qianlong period, circa 1785 and listed as possibly for the Middle Eastern market is illustrated by Elinor Gordon,
Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, New York, 1979, p.52, no.40.

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