Lot 34: AN AUBERGINE-GLAZED VASE 18th/19th century

AN AUBERGINE-GLAZED VASE

18th/19th century

Of finely potted, elegant pear shape, the compressed globular body rising from a short slightly spreading foot to a tall waisted neck with flaring mouth rim, covered with a lustrous violet-blue glaze that continues down the neck interior before stopping at the biscuit interior, the foot ring and base also unglazed and firing to an orange-red tone.


11 1/8in (28.3cm) high

Generally, in good overall condition, save for a short hairline at the everted rim (approx. 3.5cm) long though barely perceptible. The violet-blue aubergine glaze with some minor surface wear and tiny bubble inclusions but again unobtrusive. The glaze bubbling slightly where it pools above the biscuit foot. The foot ring with unobtrusive chips.

十八/十九世紀 霽藍釉撇口瓶



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



For a two Qianlong-marked ceramics with a similar
qiepi zi (eggplant-skin purple) glaze, see
Imperial Perfection, The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi-Yongzheng-Qianlong, A Selection from the Wang Xing Lou Collection, Hong Kong, 2004, pp.238-241, nos.94-95, where it is noted that the glaze owes its color to the introduction of manganese oxide, and is generally found on un-marked non-imperial wares.

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