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Various Owners 各方藏家

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A famille rose ‘snowscape’ vase
20th century, signed Yu Wenxiang (1910-1990)
Delicately enamelled around the body with a continuous scene of terraced
pagodas and other pavilions housing small figures within a snowy wooded
mountainous landscape with a river flowing under a narrow bridge on stilts,
the rim gilded and the underside with an iron-red and gilt four-character mark
Jingdezhen zhi. 34cm (13¼in) high
£6,000 - 8,000
HK$71,000 - 94,000 CNY56,000 - 75,000
二十世紀 粉彩雪景圖瓶 「余文襄」款
Provenance: acquired in Shanghai in the 1990s.
來源：1990年代購自上海
The inscription reads:
九州積氣峰前合,
浪顯連山噴雪來.
丙寅年冬
which may be translated as:
‘From across the nine provinces [China] energy gathers before the peaks,
The coming waves resemble a snowy mountain range.
Winter of bingyin year [AD1926]’
The artist He Xuren apparently acknowledged Yu Wenxiang to be his best
student. Compare a related vase, signed Yu Wenxiang, circa 1958, from the
Anthony Evans Collection, sold in these rooms on 10 November 2011, lot 603.

240
A famille rose baluster vase
20th century, signed Liu Yucen with Yucen seal
The delicately potted vase enamelled with one golden-brown bird perched on a
long grassy stem growing beside a other flowering grasses and a pink-flowered
spray, two further golden-brown birds and two greyish-brown birds in flight
above, the reverse with an inscription and seal, the underside with an iron-red
seal. 23.5cm (9¾in) high
£5,000 - 8,000
HK$59,000 - 94,000 CNY47,000 - 75,000
二十世紀 粉彩花鳥紋瓶 「劉雨岑」款
款識：粧面迴青鏡，歌塵起畫梁。潭湖漁劉雨岑寫於珠山。
印文：雨岑
This may be translated as:
“A beautiful woman’s face is reflected in the bronze mirror, amidst song and
dance the dust rises up to the painted beams.” Written in Zhushan by deep lake
fisherman Liu Yucen.
The inscription is couplet from the poem “Mei 梅” (plum) composed by the Tang
Dynasty poet Li Qiao.

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