拍品专文
The jue cups were used during the bronze age for heating alcohol over fire. Originally made of metal, porcelain ones were also appreciated, and white porcelain jue were excavated from the early Yongle strata in 1982 on the site of the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, as documented in the Catalogue of the Exhibition of Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 116, where it is noted that the first Ming emperor Hongwu ordered white porcelain jue to be used in sacrificial ceremonies.
An almost identical white glazed jue with gilt painted decoration from the Muse Guimet collection is illustrated in Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, pl. 170. It is noted that the trompe-l'oeil technique of decoration to imitate archaic vessels was initiated by Emperor Qianlong's taste for the curious and the archaic.
Jue cups in the Qing dynasty were also glazed and decorated in other colours other than white. Aubergine-glazed ones are illustrated in Mayuyama, 70 years, vol. I, no. 1079, and in An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Catalogue, London, 1993, no. 50.
(US$6,000-8,000)
An almost identical white glazed jue with gilt painted decoration from the Muse Guimet collection is illustrated in Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, pl. 170. It is noted that the trompe-l'oeil technique of decoration to imitate archaic vessels was initiated by Emperor Qianlong's taste for the curious and the archaic.
Jue cups in the Qing dynasty were also glazed and decorated in other colours other than white. Aubergine-glazed ones are illustrated in Mayuyama, 70 years, vol. I, no. 1079, and in An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Catalogue, London, 1993, no. 50.
(US$6,000-8,000)