An Yijun stoneware sky-blue glazed vase Qing dynasty
An Yijun stoneware sky-blue glazed vase
Qing dynasty
Of archaistic fangzun form, the rectangular body supported on a straight foot and tapering to a stepped mouth, applied with a pair of taotie masks and ring handles, covered all over with a rich mottled lavender-blue glaze, the interior and base unglazed revealing the reddish-brown body.
21.2cm high.
Estimate:
HK$ 30,000 - 50,000
US$ 3,900 - 6,400
£2,500 - 4,100

Footnotes

  • For a closely related vase from the Qing court collection, preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Yixing Zisha Wares in the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2009, p.285, pl.185, where it outlines that the original box is affixed with a label recording the vase as being a tribute piece to the Qianlong emperor from a Buddhist lama.

    清 紫泥天青釉鋪首耳方尊

    尊方口,微微向四方以弧線形伸展,到腹下部微鼓出,方圈足,肩兩側浮雕鋪首,通體施較深且實的天青釉,釉色鮮明,優雅怡人。

    參考故宮博物院編《故宮博物院藏宜興紫砂》,頁285,圖版185。此件拍品與前一件(拍品編號247)所有胎泥不同,為紫泥作胎,底部並無鈐印。

Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art


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