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A Yue proto-porcelain celadon-glaze stoneware vessel, Western…
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Sydney
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15-Nov-2018
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A Yue proto-porcelain celadon-glaze stoneware vessel, Western Zhou dynasty, 16.2 cm diam. Provenance: Walter Hochstadter Collection. Mossgreen, Melbourne, 14 June 2011, lot 244. Proto-porcelain was not fully understood or clearly defined until the 1950s, when large quantities were unearthed from Erligang, at Zhengzhou, Henan province. Throughout the production and firing process, wood ash was intentionally applied, resulting in the formation of lime-rich glazes. The firing temperature is around the maturing temperature for the later lime glazes, demonstrating that the potters during the later bronze age were already able to attain sufficiently high temperature in their kilns. For a similar vessel with a lid, see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyingtang Collection Volume Three, Part I, London, 1994, p. 110, pl. 1126. Walter Hochstadter (1914 - 2007) was a collector, dealer and scholar of Chinese art, particularly of ceramics. Pieces from his collection are found in numerous major institutions including the Freer Gallery and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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