Lot 38: AN UNUSUAL CRACKLE-GLAZED BROWN-DRESSED STONEWARE JAR First half 19th century

AN UNUSUAL CRACKLE-GLAZED BROWN-DRESSED STONEWARE JAR

First half 19th century

The stoutly potted vessel of baluster profile under a crackled thick gray glaze and divided with three bands of brown-dressed molded biscuit decoration inspired by archaic bronze models, the wide band at the shoulder of molded scrollwork on an incised cell ground between a thin bands of relief
ruyi heads and divided on each side by a pair of high-relief lion-mask handles set between a similar brown-dressed band of archaistic
kuilong and rectangular flanges at the waisted neck and above large pendent plantain leaf lappets with keyfret edges descending towards the foot with a flat unglazed foot ring and glazed base with seven brown-dressed spurs; the later domed pierced wood cover surmounted by a fragment of a boxwood aborigine-form netsuke.


9in (23cm) high

Generally, in good overall condition. Small losses to mane on one lion-mask handle and one small rectangular flange loss. Some minute nibbles and one original kiln glaze pull to neck interior edge but unobtrusive. Some losses and repair to later wood cover.

十九世紀前半期 仿哥釉鐵骨泥鋪首耳瓶配木蓋



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



Compare with a similar crackle-glazed stoneware vessel, attributed to 1780-1900, and bequeathed by Mr. W. H. Cope in 1903 to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (acc. no. 609-1903). The same museum has another vase of related crackled glaze and brown decorative bands imitating bronze, produced circa 1865-75, (acc. no. 21-1876) purchased from Bernard Quaritch in 1876, three years earlier than the accession date of the present example; see C. Clunas,
Chinese Exports Arts and design, London, 1987, p.56, fig.38.



For a slightly smaller Yongzheng-marked archaistic vessel of bronze form, with similar brown bands of decoration, see
Monochrome Porcelain, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p.166, no.150.

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