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A Chinese copper-red-glazed pear-shaped vase, yuhuchun Qianlong seal mark and of the period Well...

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Lot 48

A Chinese copper-red-glazed pear-shaped vase, yuhuchun
Qianlong seal mark and of the period
Well...

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Lot 48

Description

A Chinese copper-red-glazed pear-shaped vase, yuhuchun

Qianlong seal mark and of the period

Well potted with pear shaped body rising from a slightly tapering foot to waisted neck and everted rim, covered in an even dark copper red glaze stopping neatly at the footrim, underglaze blue six character seal mark to base, 23cm high.

Provenance:

Bonham's Hong Kong, 29th May 2022, lot 143.

Stephen S.L. Li Consultancy Ltd., Hong Kong, 1992

An Asian private collection 

Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen, 1950, no.35 (label)

清乾隆 紅釉玉壺春瓶,青花篆書「大清乾隆年製」款

來源:

邦瀚斯香港2022年5月29日拍賣第143號。

Stephen S.L. Li 咨詢公司,香港1992。

亞洲私人收藏

哥本哈根丹麥藝術與設計博物館,1950年,編號35(標籤)。

 

With the wish to reproduce classic Ming sacrificial red (jihong) porcelains, the use of copper-red glaze at Jingdezhen was revived by the Kangxi Emperor and peaked in the Qianlong period. Nigel Wood in Chinese Glazes, London, 1999, p. 180, notes how the French Jesuit missionary, Père François d’Entrecolles (b. 1664-1741) was aware of the difficulties involved in the making of copper-red wares and admires the high level of technical knowledge acquired by the Jingdezhen potters.

Copper-red vases of this type are held in important museums and private collections worldwide. Similar one in the Nanjing Museum, is illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, pl.346. Se one in the Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1990, vol. 2, pl. 660; Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong. Qing Porcelain in the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 287, pl. 116; Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum, Jingdezhen, illustrated in Chugoku kogei bijutsu sosho: Chugoku toji hen, vol. 1: Keitokuchin jiki [Chinese arts and crafts series. Chinese ceramics, vol. 1, Jingdezhen porcelain], Kyoto, 1982, p. 82. 

Compare with a similar copper-red-glazed vase, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, sold at Sotheby's New York, 15 September 2015, lot 85. Another similar copper-red-glazed vase, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, was sold at Christie's New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1144. See also Celestial Colors: The Cadle Family Collection of Chinese Monochromes, Sotheby's New York, 21 March 2023, lot 15.

Vases with this pear-form shape are called yuhuchun in Chinese, with direct translation as: Jade Bottle Spring. The earliest known yuhuchun vase were made in Sui dynasty (581-618). During Song dynasty, such vases were made by Ding, Longquan, Jingdezhen, Ru, Yaozhou, and Jun kiln. According to The Palace Museum, yuhuchun was used as wine vessel during Song to Yuan dynasty and used as a flower vase during Ming and Qing dynasty. In the Complete Tang Poems (《二十四诗品·典雅》, Si Kongtu writes 'buy a yuhuchun vase full of Spring Wine, and hear rain falling on my thatched cottage' .

 

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