Ming yongle Sweet dark moment fold branch flowers craft lines double canister

• RMB 1725000
• HKD 1973684
• USD 258750
• EUR 189750

record: sotheby’s Hong Kong, April 8, 2011, no. 3197
Beijing, December 18, 2009, no. 17

note: according to the Ming emperor taizong: a memoir, “yongle four year of October not a reporter:” and “teeth into the jade bowl, not, life does not give money sent also. “Ministers Zheng Ci yue:” I used Chinese porcelain, seize the day clean, jade-like stone, very suitable for heart, don’t need this also. Case it treasures today also have, but I don’t have to. Visible ‘” yongle to “clean element but jade-like stone” white glazed porcelain love, this is a major cause of white porcelain in yongle dynasty, also imperial ware factory continuously improve the embryo glaze formula, fired from renew the main factors such as fat sweet white glaze.
department of double canister modelling unique to Ming yongle dynasty porcelain varieties, then no fire. Tank full-bodied sweet white glaze, glazed smooth sleek, glaze color white as coagulate fat, like snow. Small outlets, drum abdomen, abundant shoulder, body perfect dark moment fold branch flowers lines, shoulder symmetrical act the role of two small circular system, flat without glaze.
meiyintang collection yongle sweet white glaze, similar to a dark double canister, but I don’t like this: do you have dark carved flower decoration. This shape besides have sweet white glaze, also saw a same size, decorative porcelain works, saw a collection of the Palace Museum and the Shanghai museum. This piece of work for Mr QiuYan of old Tibet at a very early age, to this is very rare.

refer to: the meiyintang Tibetan Chinese ceramics (I) the fourth set, Regina krahl, 1994, pp. 65, the figure 1630
“the Palace Museum collection Ming blue and white porcelain”, the Forbidden City publishing house, 2002, 55 pages, figure 24
the Shanghai museum collection research series – royal porcelain of Ming dynasty “, Shanghai people’s publishing house, 2007, pp. 9, figure 1-4