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A ROBIN'S-EGG GLAZED LANTERN VASE, GUANGXU MARK AND PERIOD
奥地利
2024年10月18日 开拍
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A ROBIN'S-EGG GLAZED LANTERN VASE, GUANGXU MARK AND PERIOD

China, 1875-1908. Well potted, the ovoid body supported on a short foot ring and rising to a waisted neck with a gently everted rim. Covered to the exterior with an opaque turquoise glaze evenly and densely mottled in bright and dark blue, thinning to white at the rim and pooling to the interior to a clear glaze revealing the white body.

The recessed base neatly incised with a six-character kaishu mark da Qing Guangxu nianzhi and of the period.

Provenance: Georg Weishaupt Collection, Berlin, Germany. The base with an old collector’s label, ‘Weishaupt.’ Georg Weishaupt (1906-2004) was a German businessman and important collector of Chinese porcelain. Over a period of around 30 years, he built an impressive collection of some 900 pieces of East Asian porcelain, parts of which he would regularly exhibit in museums across Germany between the 1970s and 1990s. The collection focused primarily on porcelain from the late 18th century until the founding of the Chinese Republic in 1911. Weishaupt was one of the very first in Germany to devote himself to this previously underappreciated field, and published numerous books and exhibition catalogs. Much of the collection is now in the Museum of Asian Art, Berlin.
Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear and firing irregularities. Few light scratches.

Weight: 395 g (excl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 16.1 cm (excl. stand)

With a carved and pierced hardwood stand, finely decorated with a beaded upper edge and supported on three ruyi-form feet. The stand is nicely fitted to the foot of the vase and of the same period as the vase. (2)

The ‘Robin’s egg’ glaze represents a significant technical innovation of the Yongzheng period (1723-35) attributable to Tang Ying (1682-1756), the greatest porcelain superintendent in Chinese history. The Yongzheng Emperor, who initiated many revivals of earlier ceramic techniques, was particularly enamored with the variegated Jun glazes of the Song (960-1279) and Ming (1368-1644) dynasties. In order to have the glazes recreated or imitated, Tang Ying sent his trusted assistant from the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, on study trips to the Jun region in Henan province to learn from the local potters and even went as far as having ceramic raw materials mined in the Jun area transported over thousands of kilometers to Jingdezhen. Among the many types of glazes derived from those efforts are mottled purple ones such as the flambé variety, and mottled turquoise ones such as ‘robin’s egg’, which Tang Ying termed lu Jun or Oven Jun, i.e., a Jun glaze fired in low-temperature ovens instead of high-temperature kilns (see Jingdezhen Institute of Ceramic Archaeology et al, The Cultures of Porcelain Superintendents and Jingdezhen, conference volume, Nanchang, 2011). The ‘robin’s egg’ glaze is mentioned on a stele in Jingdezhen, inscribed by Tang Ying, as one of the major types of ceramics that he succeeded in firing and proposed as suitable for regular delivery to the Imperial court. Its color is described as intermediate between the glazes of the Shiwan kilns of Foshan, Guangdong, and those used by the Yixing kilns in Jiangsu for their zisha tea pots, but having a better and more beautiful flow.

According to scientific research
conducted by the Victoria & Albert Museum and Oxford University, ‘robin’s egg’ glazes are high-lead, low-temperature enamel-type compositions fired in oxidation and are colored largely with copper and opacified with lead arsenate to achieve their extraordinary beautiful effect. See Nigel Wood, Rose Kerr et al, ‘An evaluation of the composition and production processes of Chinese “robin’s egg” glazes’, International Symposium on Ancient Ceramics, Shanghai, 2002, pp. 337-353.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 22 March 2007, lot 395
Price: USD 4,560 or approx. EUR 6,200 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A small robin’s-egg blue-glazed ovoid vase, 18th/19th century
Expert remark: Compare the related form, glaze, and size (15.5 cm). Note the lack of a reign mark.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s Hong Kong, 9 October 2019, lot 188
Price: HKD 212,500 or approx. EUR 26,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A large pair of robin’s egg-glazed vases, Guanxu incised six-character marks and of the period
Expert remark: Compare the similar incised marks as well as the related form and near-identical glaze. Note the different size (59 cm) and that the lot comprises a pair.

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