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A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE SMALL JARDINIERE
circa 1640-1650
The exterior extremely-well painted in a continuous scene in vibrant For an almost identical though slightly smaller blue and white
cobalt-blue tones with ‘The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove’ with jardinière, see Christie’s, New York, ‘An Era of Inspiration: 17th-
figures variously dispersed in an outdoor setting at leisure, playing the Century Chinese Porcelains from the Collection of Julia and John
qin, enjoying a game of weiqi, and appreciating a scroll painting, all Curtis, 16 March 2015, lot 3555. While the figures on our example
beneath a band of upright leaf lappets at the slightly waisted neck, exactly follow the poses struck by the figures on the Curtis jardinière,
the slightly concave base unglazed. differences can be seen in the decoration of the robes worn by the
9 1/8 inches (23.2 cm) diam. sages.

$2,000 - 3,000 The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, a group of eccentric
scholars, rejected aspects of politics and the war-torn world in which
十七世紀過渡期 青花花盆 they found themselves, in favor of leisure activities such as music and
poetry, as well as philosophical discussion. They are believed to have
met in a bamboo grove in Shanyang (now Henan province), in the 3rd
Provenance century AD. They became symbols of the struggle of scholars against
Elinor Gordon, Villanova, PA all things corrupt in the political sphere, dynastic lineage and even
rejected certain aspects of both Confucian and Daoist teaching.
來源：
賓州 Villanova 區，Elinor Gordon 舊藏

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