A PAIR OF IRON-RED AND GILT VASES JURENTANG MARKS, REPUBLIC PERIOD

each of baluster form and well-painted in mirror image with a continuous scene of geese paddling in the water amidst varying types of waterplants, the base with the four-characters hallmarks in iron-red within a double square (2)

Acquired by Mrs. T. C. Duncan Eaves, Fayetteville Arkansas in London in 1976.

Bulletin Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, vol. XVIII, no. 2, Rotterdam, 1967, p. 72, fig. 12.
H.A. Van Oort, The Porcelain of Hung-Hsien, Lochem (The Netherlands) , 1970, no. 25.
H.A. Van Oort, Chinese Porcelains of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Lochem (The Netherlands), 1977, p. 94, pl. 126.

Both with wear to the gilding on the rim. One vase with a restored break around the neck and associated restored cracks to the rim.
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Jurentang formerly Haiyantang, and built for the empress dowager Cixi, was for 83 days the residence of Yuanshikai, the general who from (1915-1916) briefly declared himself emperor using the reign name 'Hongxian'. It is thought that pieces with the Jurentang hallmark were produced during this period and are considered among the best examples of Hongxian period porcelain.