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TWO FAMILLE-ROSE ‘LANDSCAPE’ PLAQUES 清十八世紀末 / 十九世紀初 粉彩山水圖 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
QING DYNASTY, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH 瓷板兩件 A SET OF FOUR ‘QIANJIANG’ ENAMELED
CENTURY ‘LANDSCAPE’ PLAQUES
hongmu and gilt black lacquer frames (2) 來源 BY CHENG MEN, LATE QING DYNASTY
Height 24⅝ in., 62.5 cm; Width 14¾ in., 37.5 cm 德州私人收藏 (4)
Heights 16⅝ in., 42.3 cm; Widths 10⅛ in., 25.6 cm
PROVENANCE
Texas Private Collection. PROVENANCE
Collection of Dr. Harry Willis Miller (1879-1977), acquired in
$ 30,000-50,000 Asia while working as a medical missionary, and thence by
descent.
Cheng Men (d. before 1908), zi Songsheng, hao Xueli or
Lidaoren, was a porcelain painting master active during the
late Qing dynasty. He practiced in the qianjiang enameling
style, which is characterized by its use of a restrained palette
in pale washes, giving the porcelains painted in this style the
look of watercolors. This style is said to be based on literati
painting, and was popular during the late Qing and early
Republic periods. Compare a porcelain plaque by Cheng
Men, painted with a scholar and an attendant carrying qin
in a landscape, in the Muwentang Collection, illustrated in
Simon Kwan, Chinese Porcelain of the Republic Period, Hong
Kong, 2008, pl. 1; and a set of four landscape plaques, sold
at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th May 2012, lot 4266.
Dr. Harry Willis Miller, a native of Ohio, studied at John
Harvey Kellogg’s American Medical Missionary College,
Michigan. He and his wife went to China in 1903, where
he became both a specialist in surgery and a missionary
generalist and administered hospitals in Shanghai and
Hankow, Hubei. Dr. Miller left Shanghai in 1949 and
continued his contributions in Taipei. He was later awarded
the Blue Star of China by Chiang Kai-shek for his meritorious
service to the people of China.

$ 10,000-15,000
清末 程門作淺絳彩山水高士圖瓷板一
套四屏
題識：
扁舟一釣竿 蕩漾晴波裏 滄風發浩漪 鷗鷺皆驚起
仿清湘老人筆意 門誌

秋盡漲痕缩 日高林影重 青驢雖蕞爾 編踏萬千峰
笠道人作於昌江官舍

泉韻與松風 入耳皆佳妙 況乃故人來 掀髯當一笑
雪笠氏程門

曉來霜氣發 楓葉紅於染 為訪知音人 抱琴登絕嶽
笠道人並題

印文：
笠 松生 程
來源
Harry Willis Miller 醫生 (1879-1977) 收藏，於亞洲任職
醫學傳教士期間入藏，此後家族傳承

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