Beschreibung:

A RARE IRON-RUST-GLAZED SMALL BALUSTER VASE, MEIPING18th century
Well potted, the exterior all under a rust-coloured rich dark mottled glaze firing to a chocolate-brown tone around the slightly-everted flaring neck. 18cm (7in) high.Footnotes十八世紀 鐵鏽花釉梅瓶
Provenance: Emil (1869-1948) and Jenny Baerwald, Berlin
Paul Baerwald (1871-1961), New York
John Sparks Ltd., London, 1937
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 9 May 2003
A European private collection
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst, Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, Berlin, 12 January-2 April 1929, no.845, p.314
John Sparks, Paul Baerwald Collection of Chinese Porcelain, London, 15 June–3 July 1937, no.128
來源：Emil (1869-1948) 和Jenny Baerwald，柏林
Paul Baerwald (1871-1961)，紐約
倫敦古董商John Sparks Ltd.，1937
Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，2003年5月9日
歐洲私人收藏
展覽著錄：東方藝術協會，《Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst》，柏林，1929年1月12日-1929年4月2日，編號845，第314頁
John Sparks，"Paul Baerwald收藏的中國瓷器"，倫敦，1937年6月15日-7月3日，編號128
Emil Baerwald collected Chinese porcelain and loaned the present vase to the seminal 1929 exhibition in Berlin. At some point in the 1930s the ownership of the vase and other parts of the collection was transferred to his brother Paul. Paul Baerwald was a German-born American philanthropist and banker. He began his banking career with Lazard-Speyer-Ellissen in Frankfurt, then joined Speyer Brothers in London and finally moved to New York to work with Speyer and Company and finally Lazard Frères until his retirement in 1930. He was also a chairman of the executive committee of Fidelity-Phoenix Fire Insurance Co., executive member of the fire Building Corporation, director of the General American Investors Corporation and advisory committee member of the Texas Pacific Land Trust.
Baerwald was an avid collector of Chinese porcelain and in 1937, John Sparks in London organised an exhibition on Baerwald's collection and authored a catalogue titled An Exhibition of the Paul Baerwald Collection of Chinese Porcelain: Rare Monochromes, Blue and White, and Other Porcelains of the Sung, Ming and Chʼing Dynasties : June 15th-July 3rd, 1937.
Iron-rust glaze (tiexiu hua you 铁锈花釉) was a successful innovation during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor and became popular during the Qianlong period. The major colourants of the glaze are iron and manganese. See P.Y.K.Lam, Shimmering Colours: Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods, Hong Kong, 2005, p.243. As seen in the present lot, the numerous star-like red and brown dots on the dark-brown glaze surface have greatly enriched its vitality.
See a similar iron-rust-glazed meiping vase, late 18th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc.no.79.2.806). Another miniature iron-rust-glazed vase, meiping, 18th century, is in the same museum (acc.no.65.86.39). A related iron-rust-glazed vase, illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1999, pl.254, p.278.