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A Robins-egg-glazed bombe censer
Impressed Yongzheng seal mark and possibly of the PeriodThe wide swelling body of compressed form and standing on a spreading cylindrical foot ring and below a slightly flared rim, a horizontal U-loop handle attached on either side below the rim and at the mid-body, all under a viscous turquoise glaze over a deep manganese-red, which continues to the interior and across the base and over the impressed six-character horizontal-format seal mark, only the brown-dressed foot rim exposed. 7 3/4in (19.6cm) across the handles
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爐鈞釉雙耳香爐 《大清雍正年製》款 PROVENANCEAcquired by the present owners grandfather in London in the 1960's (by repute)Label of Bluett & Sons, London to base來源據藏家，其祖父於上世紀六十年代購於倫敦底部標籤Bluett & Sons, 倫敦An identically-shaped robin's-egg-glazed censer from the Edward T. Chow Collection was sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, Edward T. Chow Collection, Part Three, Ming and Qing Porcelain, 19 May 1981, lot 502, also with the same purplish manganese-red feathery mottling seen in our example. Another Yongzheng-marked 'robin's-egg' censer of this form was included in Min qiu jing she (Monochrome Ceramics of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties), Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, no. 108. A Yongzheng example more recently sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 25 November 2014, lot 2950. Another, of so-called Peacock-feather glaze, was illustrated by Chiaki Oshima, The Collection of Chinese Art, Tenth Anniversary Special Exhibition, Senshutey, Tokyo, 2006, p. 90, no. 125. Another very similarly glazed example sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 8 October 2010, lot 2665.The striking effect of this glaze is seemingly achieved by applying an opaque turquoise glaze colored with copper. For further discussion, see Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, p. 88, where it is noted that that there are two distinctive types of robin's-egg glaze, one with blotches of turquoise and dark blue, and another, like ours, streaked with copper-red.Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, p. 252, notes that Robin's egg glaze first appeared during the Yongzheng reign, as a re-interpretation of the Song dynasty Jun wares and was an innovation of the Imperial kiln potters. Court records reveal that censers made to imitate Jun wares had gained an elevated level of recognition and admiration from the Emperor.The form of the present censer may have been inspired by those made in bronze during the Ming dynasty, see A Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1994, pp. 197-198, nos. 52 and 53. It is also possible that the brown-dressed foot-rim of our censer, in a nod to the archaizing sensibility prevalent at court, is meant to mimic its bronze prototype.
