Lot 29: THREE MONOCHROME CRACKLE-GLAZED VASES Qing Dynasty

THREE MONOCHROME CRACKLE-GLAZED VASES

Qing Dynasty

Comprising: a tall, yellow-glazed square-section baluster vase with simple lion-mask handles below the high shoulders, waisted neck and flaring mouth, the glaze suffused with a dense craquelure of gray lines continuing to the neck interior and stopping above the biscuit interior, the square foot ring un-glazed, the base glazed; a small apple-green-glazed globular bottle vase of elegant profile, the glaze fading to a crackled white at the rim, neck interior, and to the base underside, a rounded biscuit foot ring; and a tall eight-lobed melon-form vase, under a tightly-crackled gray glaze that stops just below the very short sloping biscuit neck and again neatly above the rounded biscuit foot ring, the base glazed and the biscuit of the foot and neck stained a dark brown. (3)


yellow vase: 8 1/2in (21.6cm) high
apple-green vase: 6 1/2in (16.5cm) high
gray vase: 8 1/4in (21cm) high

Yellow vase: Generally, in good overall condition. The glaze thinning at the narrow edges as to be expected. A few small iron spots and minute air bubble pinpricks.


Green vase: Generally, in good overall condition. There is one small glaze flake just above the foot to one side and minor surface wear as to be expected.


Gray vase: Generally, in good overall condition. A few small iron spots and minute air bubble pinpricks. The glaze to the base underside has an original firing flaw but unobtrusive.

清 黃釉獸耳四方瓶 蘋果綠釉長頸瓶 及仿哥釉瓜棱瓶



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

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