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Exquisite rare early Kangxi sky blue vase
A beautiful and very rare Kangxi period sky blue double gourd vase. This vase has a very elegant, graceful, and flowing contour. It has an elongate body, especially the upper section, and with a proportionally large mouth than such vases made thereafter. This shape is typical for Kangxi double gourd vases. The clay that forms the body is white and very fine, typical of Kangxi porcelain clays. The transparent glaze on the inner wall and the outer base is slightly milky, off white, with trace of greenish tint, typical for Kangxi transparent glazes.The light greenish-blue and opaque glaze on the outer wall is exceedingly beautiful and very rare.In Chinese porcelain history, this color exists primarily among a very small number of Five Dynasty Cai porcelains and Song Ru wares.But the ancient glazes are quite different from this glaze of Kangxi in other aspects.Many minute shallow dents, about 0.2 mm in diameter, scatter on the surface of the glaze, resulting from burst bubbles occurring during firing and cooling. This feature is common among early Kangxi porcelains. A double circles mark in underglaze blue is written at center of the outer base. The underglaze cobalt pigment is subdued and appears to adhere to the bottom of the glaze.These are important characteristics of early Kangxi underglaze blue, and differentiate Kangxi from later imitations.On the 16th year of Kangxi reign, the head Fo Liang county, where the imperial porcelain factory resided, prohibited the writing of reign mark on porcelains, in order to prevent that the sacred reign mark might be trashed when porcelain is broken. Perhaps this is the reason that Kangxi mark was not written on this magnificent double gourd vase.
美麗而稀有的清康熙天青釉葫蘆瓶. 此瓶造形工整. 胎細潤. 是康煕時的糯米胎. 天青釉淡藍而稍帶綠、近於後來乾隆的松石綠釉但又比其淡些、而且較鮮艷多了. 是極稀有的康熙天青釉. (通常康熙雍正天青(藍)釉都是不鮮艷的淺灰藍色、不帶綠.)釉表有細波浪及一些釉面氣泡在高溫燒或冷卻時爆破所形成的小凹陷、所謂騌眼或汗孔、這是康熈早年釉的特徵之一. 外底切得講究、足端滾圓. 近足端內外兩胎釉交界線切得利落而平淨、以手撫摩可覺得自釉到胎似向下走一台階.這是常見的康熙修切器足的特徴、不止代表康熙瓷師的工藝精緻、也代表康熈胎釉材料良好、使胎釉結合緊密. 外底有青花雙圈記號. 青花色稍灰淡而微暈?、不飄浮、低沉釉底、與晚清及民國的仿康熙瓷之雙圈不同、後者青花多妖艷而飄浮. 瓶裡及外底的透明釉稍乳濁而帶灰青、也與後仿康熙瓷的較透明或粉白色透明釉不同."浮梁縣誌"載:"康熈十六年邑令張齊仲...禁...書年號及聖賢字蹟、以免殘破." 此瓶可能是當時所製、故不書康熙款.
Size: 4.5 in. (11.43 cm.) Dia x 10 in. (25.4 cm.) H
Provenance: From Dr. Robert I-San Lin, a senior Chinese artwork appraiser, whose grandfather was a major Chinese antique dealer in early 1900s. (Dr. Lin's bio, in Journal of Authentication of Artworks, 2015, is available on request).
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