A RARE HEXAGONAL SHIWAN VASE

Estimated Value:

1.000 € - 1.500 €

Result:

9.065 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, Ming dynasty
H. 20,1 cm
Wagner Collection, Gronau, purchased 19.10.1988, lot 382 at Christie's Amsterdam
Exhibited and published: Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf, Dr. Daniel Suebsman and Thomas Belz 'All the Colours of China', 20.9.2018 - 30.-4.2019, p. 80.
Daniel Suebsman noted in the exhibition catalogue for this vase: ‚ The elongated crack patterns of the guan ware from the Xiuneisi and Jiaotanxia kilns are compared with crab claws. The craquelés of the Ge-Ware, named after the as yet undiscovered 'Elder brother's kiln' (GEYAO) of the Zhang brothers from Longquan, are somewhat more closely meshed and mostly pigmented in two colours, an effect that Chinese collectors call 'gold thread and iron wire' (JINSI TIEXIAN). In Jingdezhen, but also in the Shiwan kilns near Foshan (Guangdong Province), highly valued song glazes such as Ge, Guan and Jun were copied very early on. The Shiwan glazes, however, are low fired biscuit glazes, therefore thinner and softer than their historical counterparts - Small restored glaze chips to stand

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