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PROPERTY FROM THE QUEK KIOK LEE COLLECTION
                                                              3149
                                                              A FINE FAMILLE-ROSE ‘BAJIXIANG’ PEAR-SHAPED
                                                              VASE
                                                              REPUBLIC PERIOD (1912-1949), JINGYUAN TANG HALL MAKE IN IRON RED
                                                              The elongated pear-shaped body rising to a tall cylindrical neck
                                                              accentuated with a single gilded raised fillet. The exterior is finely
                                                              painted with bajixiang (Eight Buddhist Emblems) together with flowing
                                                              brocade ribbon and blooming flowers. All are set between a galleried rim
                                                              and the foot encircled by evenly-spaced sprigs of flowers and scrolls. The
                                                              base is inscribed with a Jingyuan Tang zhi hall mark.
                                                              10 º in. (26 cm.) high
                                                              HK$150,000-200,000                  US$20,000-26,000
                                                              The hall mark Jingyuantang zhi (Hall of Tranquillity and Remoteness)
                                                              was used by Xu Shichang, who served as the President of the
                                                              Republic of China from 1918 to 1922.

                                                              民國   粉彩八寶紋長頸瓶   礬紅方框「靜遠堂製」篆書款

                                                              來源
                                                              郭克禮珍藏
                                                              徐世昌 (1855-1939) 於 1918 至 1922 年時曾任
                                                              中華民國第二任大總統。「靜遠堂」為其書齋
                                                              號,而在其總統任內曾以此款燒製一批瓷器,
                                                              但存世量頗少。



                                                              PROPERTY FROM THE QUEK KIOK LEE COLLECTION
                                                              3150
                                                              A SET OF FOUR FAMILLE ROSE ‘LANDSCAPE’
                                                              PLAQUES
                                                              SIGNED WANG YETING AND DATED BINGYIN YEAR CORRESPONDING
                                                              TO 1926
                                                              Each plaque is skilfully enamelled in pastel and rich blue-green tones
                                                              depicting four different scenes of figures at leisure amongst trees,
                                                              pavilions, and sampans in a mountainous river landscape. Each plaque
                                                              bears a poetic inscription and is dated the eleventh month of bingyin year
                                                              (corresponding to 1926), signed Wang Yeting, and two seals reading
                                                              ‘zuo’ and ‘Ting’.
                                                              11 x 8 º in. (28 x 21 cm.)                       (4)
                                                              HK$200,000-300,000                  US$26,000-38,000
                                                              Compare the landscape plaques by the same artist from the Muwen
                                                              Tang Collection as illustrated by Simon Kwan, Chinese Porcelain of
                                                              the Republic Period, Hong Kong, 2008, pp. 136-145, nos. 39-43.

                                                              1926年   汪野亭款粉彩山水圖瓷板一套四件

                                                              題款:
                                                              白沙留月色,綠竹助秋聲。丙寅冬十一月汪野亭寫意。
                                                              山靜似太古,日長入小年。丙寅冬十一月汪野亭寫意。
                                                              水曲山如畫,樓高月傍花。丙寅冬十一月汪野亭寫意。
                                                              露滴珠璣顆,波明錦繡粧。丙寅冬十一月汪野亭寫意。
                               3149                           印文:作、亭

                                                              來源
                                                              郭克禮珍藏
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