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Lot 18: TWO SLIP-DECORATED 'PRUNUS' VASES Mid-Late Qing Dynasty

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TWO SLIP-DECORATED 'PRUNUS' VASES

Mid-Late Qing Dynasty

Comprising a pear-shaped brown-glazed vase decorated under the glaze with a lightly incised white slip depicting branches of prunus blossom and budding stems alongside narcissus to one side; and a widely crackled lavender-glazed
meiping vase decorated in an opaque white slip with a long-beaked bird perched on a gnarled blossoming prunus tree rising from a knoll near rockwork to one side, the neck interior and the base with a crackled white-glazed, the base with a rare underglaze-blue four-character seal mark reading
Chenghua nian zhi. (2)


brown-glazed vase: 9 1/2in (24.1cm) high
meiping: 9 3/8in (23.8cm) high


Condition Report

Brown-glazed vase: Generally, in good condition, save for a hairline at the neck and rim (4.5cm). Interesting slip decoration under the coffee glaze which pools slightly at various points in the decoration. The reverse side with a paler glaze drip but unobtrusive.


Lavender-glazed vase: Generally, in good condition, save for an area of smoky inclusions to the glaze that run from below the neck to approximately one half of the rounded shoulder. A small kiln adhesion at the foot but unobtrusive.

Provenance

清中晚期 醬釉貼塑花卉紋膽瓶 及天藍釉堆白「喜上眉梢」梅瓶



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904),紐約

會費購藏,1879 年

大都會藝術博物館,1879 年迄今



For another white-slip-decorated pale-blue-glazed vase decorated with birds amidst flowers, see Ronald and Juliana Chao,
Our Encounter with Ceramics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 2018, p. 077, no. 068.

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