拍品 1022
  • 1022

A CHINESE FAMILLE-VERTE VASE QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

估價
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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描述

  • porcelain
  • Height: 19 inches
the waisted body supported on a splayed foot rising to a rounded shoulder, painted with poets and literati drinking wine from cups flowing down a winding river and engaging in variously scholarly activities, now mounted as a lamp

Condition

The vase has been reduced in height probably from a yen-yen form. There are patches of flaking to the enamels, particularly to the blue. There are some crazing and discoloration to the green enamel. There is also a tiny old chip to the foot. Now no longer mounted as a lamp.
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拍品資料及來源

The scene depicted here is from Lantingji Xu, or the 'Preface to the Gathering at the Orchid Pavillion'. A calligraphy masterpiece by the renowned Jin Dynasty calligrapher Wang Xizhi, the work describes a gathering of forty-two literati during late spring of the year 353 AD (9th year of Emperor Yonghe), where each challenged the others to a drinking game. Wine cups were floated down the river, and whenever a cup stopped in front of a scholar, he should either compose a poem or drink the wine. 
A rouleau vase depicting the same subject is in the collection of the Palace Museum, and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, cat. no. 68.