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AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY 元 龍泉青釉賢媛四藝圖獅鈕蓋罐
RARE LONGQUAN CELADON ‘FOUR
SCHOLARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS’ 來源：
JAR AND COVER Léon Wannieck，巴黎
YUAN DYNASTY

robustly potted with a baluster body, rising
from a stepped foot to a wide straight neck, the
exterior deftly decorated in high relief enhanced
by detailed carving, with scenes of ladies
amongst elaborate interiors engaged in various
literati pursuits, one depicting a lady holding a
ruyi sceptre looking back at a female attendant
carrying a qin, another with a lady and her
attendant standing before a table laden with scroll
paintings, the third with two seated ladies reading
beside a standing attendant, and the last with two
ladies engaged in a game of weiqi flanked by two
attendants holding a fan and a covered vessel
respectively, each scene masterfully divided by
trees and leafy plantain issuing from rockwork
forming a continuous painterly representation
of the ‘four accomplishments’, all above slender
upright lappets just above the foot and below
a trellis border at the rim, covered overall in a
thick celadon glaze of sea-green tone, pooling
to a deeper tone at the recesses, save for the
unglazed mouthrim and neatly trimmed wedge-
shaped foot fired to burnt orange, the domed
cover with a scalloped rim, similarly decorated
in high relief with ten shaped roundels enclosing
precious objects below a band of pendent ruyi
heads, all divided by rows of raised floret bosses
and surmounted by a Buddhist lion finial
overall height 39.3 cm, 15½ in.,
width 31 cm, 12¼ in.

PROVENANCE
Léon Wannieck, Paris.

HK$ 7,000,000-9,000,000
US$ 895,000-1,160,000

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