A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

细节

A FINE TEADUST-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
INCISED QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Well potted with a globular lower bulb and a slender, tapering upper bulb linked by a pair of elegant high loop handles terminating in ruyi-heads at the shoulders of the lower bulb, the waist faintly moulded with a band of petals divided by a central rib, covered overall in a thick, speckled green glaze of characteristic tone, the nianhao covered with a brown wash--10 in. (25.4cm.) high, box

展览

The National History Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
On loan from the Qiuzhi Yiaji of Hong Kong

拍品专文

Vases of this size and form with a teadust glaze and a Qianlong mark are illustrated in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, Catalogue, no. 938; in Chinese Ceramics, Ch'ing Dynasty, Taibei, 1989, pl. 301 and 330; in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 80; and in the Tokyo National Museum, Catalogue, no. 669. See also the example included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition of Monochrome Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1977, Catalogue no. 100