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Famille Rose Celadon

November 2nd, 2008

Angie

Famille Rose Celadon

Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art [Sotheby's, New York (5791) / 29 Nov 1988]

Sotheby’s auction house, New York (29 November 1988). Sale Code: 5791/SHANDONG. 227 lot(s). Catalog is in English. Items presented in this catalog include: Archaic and Later Jades, Archaic and Later Bronzes, Sculptures, Neolithic Wares, Han Tomb Sculpture, Pre-Tang, tomb Sculpture, Tang and Liao Wares, Unglazed Tang Figures, Glazed Tang Tomb Figures, Song Wares, YingQing, Junyao, Yueyao, Celadon, …

CHRISTIE’S AUCTION CATALOG TITLED: CHINESE CERAMICS AND CHINESE EXPORT CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART , DATED NOVEMBER 12, 2002.

$99.99

A RARE OUT OF PRINT CHRISTIES AUCTION CATALOG,
TITLED CHINESE CERAMICS AND CHINESE EXPORT CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART,
DATED NOVEMBER 12, 2002,
LOT SIZE 140
162 PAGES
SOME OF THE HIGHER PRICED ITEMS FEATURED IN THIS SALE INCLUDE
LOT 54
AN EXQUISITE IMPERIAL INSCRIBED MUGHAL WHITE JADE JAR, GUAN
QIANLONG GUIMAO CYCLICAL DATE CORRESPONDING TO 1783 AND OF THE PERIOD ,
LOT 77
A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHIT…

Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art [Sotheby Parke Bernet, Hong Kong / 29 Nov 1977]

Sotheby Parke Bernet auction house, Hong Kong (29 November 1977). About 196 pages and 243 lot(s). Catalog is in English. Items presented in this catalog include: Celadon Wares, Sung Northern Wares, Temmoku Teabowls, Ying Ch’ing Wares, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Blue and White, Underglaze-Red Decorated Wares, Ming Polychrome Wares, Later Ming Blue and White, Ming Monochromes, Te Hua Wares, Te…

Antique Lamps – Celadon’s Cloak

Celadon is just one of the beautiful glazes used on Chinese ceramics. The colour is derived from iron and ranges in tone from putty to sea-green. It is also intended to reflect the wide range of greens found in jade. It is usually greenish, high fired and applied to the surface of white porcelain.

We should remember that in 17th century Europe, porcelain was known only by rare examples from China. No one is sure of the real story behind the name ”Celadon”, but two rather romantic stories survive.

The first entails the French, who were captivated with this new and refined ceramic ware. The story tells of the name being derived from a shepherd, the principal character in a popular 17th century, French pastoral romance, L’Astrée by Honoré d’Urfé. In this early operatic style production, the hero “Celadon” was characterized by a pale green cloak and it is supposedly from this cloak that we now identify the jade green glaze!

It was the French, who, in fact, not only gave us the name for this colour but also a full range of other sublime coloured glazes, still used as standards in the West today to identify the major range of Chinese ceramic colours. Some of these names will be familiar such as “Famille Jaune”, or, the yellow family of glazes in which yellow is the predominant colour, “Famille Noir”, or the black family of coloured glazes, “Famille Rose”, or the pink family of colours and “Famille Verte”, or the green range of glazes.

The second story that persists is another romantic tale, this time set in the Middle East. This jade green porcelain was greatly prized throughout the East and we know from court records that in the year 1171 Salah-ed-din (Saladin) Sultan of Egypt, sent as a gift, 40 pieces of this ware to Nur-ed-din, Sultan of Damascus. It is from the name of the Sultan “Salah-ed-din” that the name “Celadon” is said to have been derived.

This version of the two stories is thought to be the most probable, however, it really is a case of which story you prefer!

Wherever the name originates, the glaze we know as “Celadon” is today still as popular as ever with its elegant, cool, jade green depth of colour

A very decorative pair of mirror image, Chinese Celadon table lamps.

The shaped lamps with a pale Celadon glaze and fitted with naturalistic handles.

The lamps decorated with mirror shaped reserves well painted in polychrome enamels with subjects of Mandarin pheasants perched in peonies and water birds at a lotus pond. The lamps with original gilded copper caps, standing on well carved custom made rosewood bases.

This pair of well proportioned lamps were made around the turn of the 20th century and have been restored and rewired to original condition.

Overall height (including shades) 19″/48cm Circa 1900

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