R1058
£58,000
Description
Chinese imperial porcelain blue-glazed altar vessel and cover, dou, modelled after an archaic bronze with moulded and carved archaic designs, the upright body with ribs and bands all on a splayed, ribbed foot, the cover with a design of scrolls, fretwork and registers of stylised waves beneath a double-rope twist openwork finial, covered overall including the interior and underside in a deep and even blue glaze.
27.5 cm high.
The interior of the cover and the underside with six-character sealmarks of Qianlong and of the period, 1736-1795.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in the Spittle family collection, Suffolk, for over 60 years.
- A set of three from the Fletcher Fund in the Metropolitan Museum is included by Suzanne G. Valenstein in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, nos. 263-5, p. 261.
- A lavender glazed example is illustrated in the Catalogue of A Special Exhibition of Ch’ing-Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, no. 70, p. 119.
- A Jiaqing example is illustrated by Gunhild Avitable in From the Dragon’s Treasure, no. 4, p. 21; a smaller Daoguang example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, collection no. FE.98&A-1970.
- These vessels were used in the temple of heaven and were containers for food.
Condition
Excellent condition.
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