Monochromes from an Important American Private Collection
A teadust-glazed bottle vase, Seal mark and period of Qianlong
Live auction begins on:
September 16, 01:00 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
the base impressed with a six-character seal mark
Height 13 in., 33 cm
Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo.
Sotheby's London, 9th June 2004, lot 11.
Chinese Ceramics in the Toguri Collection, Tokyo, 1988, pl. 165.
Enrobed in an olive-green glazed flecked with a golden-yellow mist, this regal vase embodies the refined aesthetic of the Qianlong court. First produced during the Yongzheng reign as a means to imitate bronze wares, wares glazed in so-called ‘tea-dust’ glazes have become particularly celebrated in Japan for their feeling of antiquity, dappled surfaces and tactile quality.
Compare another closely related vase of this type from a Japanese family collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26th November 2014, lot 3295; another from the Meiyintang Collection in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, pl. 936; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics. Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, pl. 25; and another sold at Christie’s New York, 17th March 2017, lot 1245.
