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Subject:Re: Zou Vase - old?
Posted By: JLim Tue, Oct 21, 2014
Thank you Bill for this and your other recent posts, they are very helpful. I thought this shape was called "zou" or perhaps "zun" as it lacks the squarish profile of the hu.
Does your response mean that I ought to treat the associated yuhuchunping vase as also modern?
http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/jlim2397/library/Langyao%20Vases?sort=2&page=1
I have always been under the impression that this sort of "cracked-off" base was typical of c. 1880s iron red porcelain (for example in A Allen's books). That is, the red glaze flowed on to the underlying sagger and was crudely broken off and roughly squared with a hammer or similar.
I was also under the impression that, after c. the 1880s, the family that specialised in Langyao went extinct, and the secret of this form of Langyao was lost for a couple of decades.
The greyish crackle-glaze within the foot is very similar in both vases. Therefore, if the Hu vase is modern, I would have to come to a similar conclusion re the Yuhuchunping.
Rgds
JLim
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