Lot 37: A RARE IRON-RUST-GLAZED 'IMITATION BRONZE' VASE 18th century

A RARE IRON-RUST-GLAZED 'IMITATION BRONZE' VASE

18th century

Of elegant pear shape with a tall waisted neck with gently everted rim and supported on a tall spreading foot, covered with a lustrous
faux 'patinated bronze' glaze, the glaze continuing half-way down the neck interior where it fades to a celadon white, the foot ring unglazed and the interior foot and base similarly glazed.


7 1/4in (18.4cm) high

Generally, in excellent overall condition. There are two short 'paste' fold-lines original to the firing at the rim but unobtrusive. Highly recommended.

十八世紀 鐵鏽花釉撇口瓶



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



Iron-rust glaze (
tiexiu hua you 鐵鏽花釉) was an innovation made during the reign of the Yongzheng emperor and became popular during the Qianlong period. The major colorants of the glaze are iron and manganese. See Peter Y. K. Lam,
Shimmering Colours: Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods, Hong Kong, 2005, p.243. The glaze was originally intended to imitate bronze and create porcelain pieces that would cater to the archaistic tastes of the Court. An ovoid vase in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, with a very similar glaze and bearing an impressed Qianlong seal mark is illustrated on the museum's website (acc. no. C.176-1913).

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