AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED INSCRIBED ‘MAGPIE AND PLUM BLOSSOM’ VASE QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD 清雍正 青花釉裏紅「喜上眉梢」圖直口尊 「陶成堂」「吳培製」印
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sturdily potted with a slightly tapered cylindrical body rising from a concave base to an angular shoulder, sweeping up to a straight neck and mouth collared with a raised band, one side of the exterior painted in bright washes of cobalt blue and copper red with a pair of magpies perched on a blossoming plum tree, flanked by a leafy bamboo and a lofty pine tree, the reverse inscribed in cursive script with a poem, between two red seals reading Taocheng Tang (‘Hall of Accomplished Porcelain’) and Wu Pei zhi (‘made by Wu Pei’)
題詩：
畫愛紅梅在樹藏，松枝春趣意偏長，舟在松遙堅椄晚，松旁梅花一陣香。
40 cm
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8th October 2013, lot 3186.
來源：
香港蘇富比2013年10月8日，編號3186
The present piece is notable for the craftsman’s command of the cobalt blue and copper red pigments through which he depicts a most naturalistic scene of the popular bird and flowers motif. Careful washes of underglaze blue give the birds, branches and rockwork a sense of three dimensionality while the precise intricate detail in which the feathers and flowers are rendered are similar to what would be found on the court paintings that served as the inspiration for the present piece.
A vase painted with the 'Three Friends of Winter' in a similar style to the present, on a meiping and with a Yongzheng reign mark and of the period, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi [Porcelains from the Qing dynasty imperial kilns in the Palace Museum collection], vol. 1, pt. II, Beijing, 2005, pl. 58; and a blue and white vase of baluster form depicting birds in branches was sold at Christie’s London, 23rd October 1973, lot 188.
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