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Lot Essay
The ‘robin’s egg’-blue glaze first appeared during the Yongzheng period, reflecting the Yongzheng and Qianlong period interest in producing glazes that were both attractive in color and innovative in their use of texture. The Taocheng jishi bei (Commemorative Stele on Ceramic Production) lists the ‘robin’s egg’-blue glaze as the first of nineteen most popular glazes from the Imperial factory in 1735.
‘Robin’s egg’-blue glazes were used on vessels of various shapes. This particular shape is called biqi in Chinese, which means water chestnut, as the shape resembles that tuber. A Qianlong-marked vase of the same size and shape as the present vase, but with a Ru-type glaze, is illustrated by Xu Huping (ed.) in The Official Kilu Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 332.
‘Robin’s egg’-blue glazes were used on vessels of various shapes. This particular shape is called biqi in Chinese, which means water chestnut, as the shape resembles that tuber. A Qianlong-marked vase of the same size and shape as the present vase, but with a Ru-type glaze, is illustrated by Xu Huping (ed.) in The Official Kilu Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 332.