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PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
法國私人珍藏
(LOTS 123-126)
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VASE TRIPLE-GOURDE EN PORCELAINE IMARI
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE KANGXI (1662-1722)
Le globe inférieur est délicatement peint de pivoines et d'iris, le
globe central de bouquets de chrysanthèmes et bambous dans
une corne d'abondance. Le globe supérieur est orné de branches
de prunus fleuries sous une frise de palmes enserrant le col aux
bords évasés.
Hauteur: 72,1 cm. (28¡ in.)
€40,000-60,000 US$47,000-70,000
£37,000-54,000

PROVENANCE:
Acquired at Galerie Bernheimer during the Deutscher Kunsthandel
in Berlin, 11-28 September 1986.
Private German Collection.
BIBLIOGRAPHIE:
Weltkunst, vol. 56, No. 15, August 1986, p. 2060 (fig.1.).
Orangerie '86 catalogue, L. Bernheimer, Berlin 11-28 September
1986, p.13 (fig.2.).
Large vases in the shape of a double-gourd with an additional
third pear shaped bulb (in form of a Yuhuchunping) are exceedingly
rare. Very popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties although the
type exists since the Tang dynasty, bottle gourds are regarded
as bringing happiness in China. The Daoist immortal Li Tieguai
carries the elixir of life in a double-gourd vessel. Compare the
vase of this unusual type and size illustrated by E. Zimmermann,
Chinesisches Porzellan, vol. II, Leipzig, 1923, pl. 117 and another
from the Grandidier collection in the Musée Guimet illustrated in
Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol.
7, pl. 55, where it is described as Japanese and attributed to the
Edo period. A pair of similar vases is also illustrated in Eva Ströber,
La maladie de porcelaine... East Asian Porcelain from the Collection
of August the Strong, Leipzig, Berlin, 2001, no. 37 and another
pair illustrated in Jeffrey Yibin Stamen & Cynthia Volk, A Culture
revealed: Kangxi-era porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang collection,
Bruges, 2017, no. 1573 & 1574-1. See, also, the single vase from the
Edward James Collection, West Dean Park, sold by Christie's at
West Dean, England, 3-4 June 1986, lot 891 and a pair of similar
vases from the Cleveland Museum of Art sold at Christie's New
York, 21 September 2000, lot 343.
A LARGE IMARI TRIPLE-GOURD VASE
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
清康熙 青花五彩花卉紋葫蘆瓶
來源:
德國私人珍藏，購自德國藝術品展會中柏林古董商Galerie
Bernheimer，1986年9月11-28日

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