Lot 100: TWO VIBRANT TURQUOISE-BLUE GLAZED VASES Probably 18th century

TWO VIBRANT TURQUOISE-BLUE GLAZED VASES

Probably 18th century

Comprising: a tall bottle vase with globular body and tall waisted cylindrical neck with slightly flaring covered overall with turquoise glaze of fairly even tone with a light but dense crackle, with a partially glazed biscuit foot ring and deeply cut slightly convex turquoise glazed base;
together with a small pear-shaped vase with flaring foot and tall waisted cylindrical neck with flaring rim, supported on an unglazed biscuit foot ring with deeply cut sloping foot interior. (2)


large vase: 9 1/2in (24.1cm) high
small vase: 5 3/4in (14.6cm) high

Large vase Generally of even tone with some patches to the surface but mostly unobtrusive. Some minute air bubble pinpricks. The turquoise glaze bubbling and pooling unevenly around the foot edge and to the base. Some glaze pulling to the neck interior.


Small vase A short glaze hairline to the rim (1cm) and an original kiln glaze adhesion to the rim interior edge. Some surface scratching to the widest point of the body.

或為十八世紀 孔雀藍釉天球瓶 及孔雀藍釉撇口長頸小瓶



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




Provenance:

On loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art from Mrs. Harry Bingham, 1920-1974

Gift of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1974

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974-present




來源：

由 Harry Payne Bingham 夫人出借於大都會藝術博物館，1920-1974 年

Harry Payne Bingham 夫人贈，1974 年

大都會藝術博物館，1974 年迄今



For another turquoise glazed vase bearing a Qianlong mark, 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.242-243, no. 96, where it is noted that the glaze is generally found on un-marked non-imperial wares.

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