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來源：巴黎古董商通運公司（標籤）
巴黎佳士得，2012年12月19日，拍品編號91

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，
倫敦，2013年，編號28

The handles bear a painted inscription reading:
‘Made by Zhang Heyan’; and the names of disciples
Zhang Quan, Yang Qualin, and of secondary
disciples, Fan Changshan and Chang Yanfeng.

For a similar glazed stoneware incense burner
dated to the 34th year of the Wanli reign (1606), see
The Radiant Ming: Through the Min Chiu Society
Collection, Hong Kong, p.368. See also a related
glazed stoneware incense burner, late Ming dynasty,
illustrated by J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the
British Museum, London, pp.456-457.

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A RARE DOCUMENTARY FAHUA FIGURE OF
AN OFFICIAL
Dated to the 39th year of the Jiajing reign,
corresponding to 1560 and of the period
The dignitary modelled seated wearing an official
cap, both hands held before the chest, clad in loose
flowing robes, seated on a wide throne with foot
stool, the reverse with the name of the maker, ‘Mr
Qiao, craftsman of the town of Yangchen’, 32.5cm
(12 3/4in) high; together with an inscribed Fahua
glazed figure of Zhenwu, a tortoise and snake by his
feet, late Ming dynasty, 28cm (11in) high. (2).
£1,200 - 1,500
CNY11,000 - 14,000
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Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

明嘉靖三十九年 琺華釉文官坐像 及明晚期 琺華釉
真武大帝坐像 各一

Provenance: J.J.Lally & Co., New York

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger
Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2012,
no.30 (the figure of Zhenwu)

來源：紐約古董商J.J.Lally

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，
倫敦，2012年，編號30（真武大帝坐像）

The inscription on the reverse of the figure of
Zhenwu may be translated as ‘This county’s
[Zezhou] virtuous patron Liang Zhangtong restored
the Five Dragon Temple...in Yangcheng county,
Tongluo temple, the artisan Qiao family has
transcribed the same stele. [Made by] Qiao Shigui.’

The Qiao family were artisans spanning several
generations in Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province.
An architectural fitting of Guanyin in a grotto, dated
1573 with an inscription naming Qiao Yongxin
and his son Qiao Hui as glazers, is illustrated
by J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British
Museum, London, 2001, pp.529-531.
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