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A SLENDER FAMILLE ROSE VASE
SIGNED PAN TAOYU (CIRCA 1887-1926), DATED XINYOU YEAR,
CORRESPONDING TO 1921
The slender, high-shouldered vase is fnely painted primarily in grisaille on one
side with an early spring scene of two scholars riding donkeys followed by a
servant as they travel through an early spring landscape of towering trees, all
still bare except for one, possibly a prunus tree, bearing pink blossoms, and
on the reverse with a continuation of the scene below a fock of birds and an
inscription referring to the scene is followed by a cyclical date Xinyou and
signature Tao Yu followed by a red seal, tao. The base has a two-character seal
reading Guhuan.
12¡ in. (31.5 cm.) high, cloth box
$15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE
The Anthony Evans Collection of later Chinese Porcelain;
Bonham’s 10 November 2011, lot 579.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
Pan Taoyu (1887-1926), whose studio name is Guhuan, was a late Qing/early
Republic porcelain artists based in Poyang, Jiangxi Province. Known for his
excellence in classical Chinese painting, he taught at the Jiangxi Ceramics
School in Poyang while actively participating in porcelain-painting at the
Jingdezhen kilns at his leisure. With his meticulous techniques demonstrated
in the famille-rose palette, he was considered one of the founding fgures
who brought porcelain-painting at Jingdezhen into the 20th century. Many
famous artists, including members of the Eight Friends of Zhushan, such as
Wang Yeting (1884-1942) and Liu Yucen (1904-1969), were his students.
民國辛酉年(1921) 潘陶宇款粉彩尋梅圖瓶

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