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拍品专文
During the 18th century the Qing potters at the Imperial kilns were required to find new and interesting glaze colours to satisfy the desire for novelty at court. One of the ancient glazes that they attempted to copy was the purple splashed blue glaze of the Song dynasty Jun stonewares. The Song potters had succeeded in producing an opalescent blue, which when thin on the base or rim became transparent khaki and when splashed with copper turned rich purple. These Song potters had done this by careful control of the grinding, mixing and firing of the glaze. Over the centuries the secret of this glaze had been lost and the Qing potters found that they had to make three different glazes in order to achieve the same effect. They made separate blue, reddish-purple and transparent khaki glazes. For a detailed discussion of this topic see R. Kerr, 'Jun Wares and Their Qing Dynasty Imitation at Jingdezhen', The Porcelains of Jingdezhen, Percival David Foundation Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia, No. 16, London, 1993, pp. 150-64.
Since they were using three different glazes the Qing potters were able to achieve a much greater variety of effects than had been possible in the Song dynasty. They were able to produce not only the classic flambé glaze seen on lot 100 of this catalogue, but a number of different combinations with varying degrees of red, purple and blue. The wide variety can be seen by looking at the porcelains preserved in the Palace Museum Beijing and the National Palace Museum, Taipei, in publications such as Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, nos. 107-112 and 132-134, and Qing dai danseyou ciqi, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1982, no. 20. The current jar has a particularly rare speckled and splashed version of these glazes.
Since they were using three different glazes the Qing potters were able to achieve a much greater variety of effects than had been possible in the Song dynasty. They were able to produce not only the classic flambé glaze seen on lot 100 of this catalogue, but a number of different combinations with varying degrees of red, purple and blue. The wide variety can be seen by looking at the porcelains preserved in the Palace Museum Beijing and the National Palace Museum, Taipei, in publications such as Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, nos. 107-112 and 132-134, and Qing dai danseyou ciqi, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1982, no. 20. The current jar has a particularly rare speckled and splashed version of these glazes.