Lot 208
Fine Blue and White Bottle Vase, Guangxu Six-Character Mark in Underglaze Blue and of the Period (1875-1908)
Lot 208 Details
Fine Blue and White Bottle Vase, Guangxu Six-Character Mark in Underglaze Blue and of the Period (1875-1908)
清光緒 青花纏枝蓮賞瓶
Painted in Ming style with simulated 'heaping and piling', decorated throughout with motif bands of varied widths, including a broad section over the globular body with a scrolling floral motif, bordered to the bottom by a band of petal lappets, and above by repeating pendant trefoils. A key-fret border encircles the base of the neck with upright leaves extending to a further band of trefoils, surmounted by a border of froth-capped waves beneath the rim, the slightly spreading foot encircled by a band of classic scrolling vines
height 15.6" — 39.5 cm.
Estimate $20,000-$30,000
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Provenance:
Property from the collection of Chen Zhaogong (1903-1996), Taipei. Acquired during the 1940’s and thence by decent to the current owner in Toronto.
Chen Zhaogong was the owner and founder of the Xin Xie Ying Inc., a large bakery and candy factory located at 61 Nanjing West Road in Taipei. Specializing in Chinese cookies and sweets, the company employed over three hundred people whose jobs included operating the heavy machinery and hand-packing all the products. In 1937 the Japanese changed the company name to Xin Xie Rong Ltd. until its closure in 1957.
Amongst other things, Chen Zhaogong was elected as Baozheng, the district chief of the Jiancheng area in Guanghua Village from 1942 until 1971, and the founder of the Taipei Bakery Association in 1949.
Chen Zhaogong had many interests outside of managing the Xin Xie Rong factory. He was an amateur collector of Late Qing Dynasty and Republican Period antiques, with many pieces now dispersed to family members in Taipei, New York, and Toronto.
From the same family collection, a Blue and White Ming-Style Hu Vase, Qianlong Mark and Period (1736-1795), was sold at Waddington's, June 9, 2014, lot 187, for CAD 186,500 with buyer's premium.
一只來自同家族珍藏的乾隆青花纏枝蓮鋪首尊，曾為華汀頓Waddington's 2014年春拍封面，成交價含佣金計186,500加元，也創下北美同類青花瓶史上最高紀錄。
Note:
With carefully controlled bursts of ink resulting in small concentrated pools of paint, the “heaping and piling” method of decoration, as seen in this present example, purposefully recalls earlier 15th century techniques. Although potters had mastered the art of firing and painting underglaze cobalt blue by the 18th century, this stylistic reference, with its bold brushwork and sporadic bursts of ink, served as both a reminder and tribute to the highly prized and admired works of previous dynasties. An example with same size and design was sold at Christie’s London, November 6, 2012, lot 227; another pair sold recently at Christie’s New York, March 20, 2014, lot 2161
相同大小光緒本朝一例售於倫敦佳士得2012年11月6日,拍品編號227; 另一對近期售於紐約佳士得2014年3月20日,拍品編號2161