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A CELADON-GLAZED BLUE AND COPPER-RED
‘EIGHT HORSES OF MU WANG’ YEN YEN VASE
Kangxi
The baluster body sweeping to a wide flaring rim, finely
enamelled with a continuous scene depicting the ‘Eight
Horses of Mu Wang’ galloping, grazing and lounging
under a towering pine tree, their coats variously
decorated in underglaze blue, red and white slip, all on
a green ground, the interior white. 47.8cm (18 7/8in) high.
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,000 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

清康熙 豆青釉青花釉裡紅八駿圖鳳尾尊

The ‘Eight Horses of Muwang’ or King Mu of the Zhou
Dynasty alludes to a folktale when the King dreamed
of being an Immortal. According to the story, the King
was determined to visit the heavenly paradise and
taste the peaches of immortality. A brave charioteer
named Zaofu used his chariot to carry the king to his
destination. During these travels the emperor’s chariot
was pulled by eight horses named after the colour
of their hair. In other accounts, the horses’ names
reflected their unusual talents such as horse that
gallops without touching the ground’. See a related
example in the collection of the Umezawa Kinenkan
Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Special Exhibition:
Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1994, no.317; see another
example illustrated by D.F.Lunsingh Scheurleer, The
Frits Lugt collection of Chinese porcelains, Paris, 1981,
nos.112 and 113.
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A FAMILLE VERTE ‘PHOENIX-TAIL’ VASE
19th century
Finely enamelled around the exterior with a scholar
resting by his desk, gazing out of the window with his
attendant into a dream bubble of himself fighting a
group of warriors.
45.5cm (17 7/8in) high.
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

十九世紀 五彩人物圖鳳尾尊

See a related example illustrated in Goldener Drache
– Weißer Adler: Kunst im Dienste der Macht am
Kaiserhof von China und am Sächsisch-Polnischen
Hof (1644–1795), Dresden, 2008, no.195.

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