A RARE IMPERIAL YELLOW-GLAZED PORCELAIN BOTTLE VASE

Estimated Value:

6.000 € - 10.000 €

Result:

4.662 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, underglaze blue seal mark Qianlong and period
H. 24,6 cm (31,6 cm m.S.)
Zitan stand with silver wire inlays.
Collection Jürg Stuker, Bern sold in the early 1980s to Jürgen L. Fischer (d.2013) Baden-Baden by repute
Published: Jürgen Ludwig Fischer 'Die Chinesische Kunst', Munich 1997, p. 163
Exhibited and published: Hetjens Museum Düssedeldorf, Dr Daniel Suebsman and Thomas Belz 'All the Colours of China', 20.9.2018 - 30.-4.2019, p. 54
Yellow represents the earth element and the center of the four cardinal points. It has a balanced 'Yin- Yang' energy and is represented by the mythological chimera the Oilin. Because it was the dynastic colour of the last two Imperial dynasties, a large number of the courtly porcelains from both dynasties are glazed in yellow. At banquets, only the Emperor, his wife and the Empress dowager dined and drank from a full set of yellow-glazed tableware. In addition, yellow clothing was reserved for the imperial family and violations of this ordinance were severely punished. The yellow-glazed ritual porcelain for the sacrificial rites at the summer solstice on the Earth Altar (Ditan). Originally, the first Ming emperors worshipped heaven and earth in a common temple, until Emperor Yongle constructed a separate earth temple in northern Beijing in 1530, and, henceforth, the former temple served only for the worship of heaven - Small over painted glaze chip to body

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