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bamboo-decorated vase with an underglaze-blue size, painted with landscape scenes in grisaille on two Fig. 4 Autumn landscape
Qianlong reign mark, in the Sir Percival David sides and inscribed with poems on the other two, painting by Tang Ying,
Collection of the Palace
Collection (Rosemary E. Scott, For the Imperial Court. is also dated to the yihai year, 1755 (Geng, op. cit., Museum, Beijing. ©
Qing Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation of illustrated on the back cover of the Journal, but the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Chinese Art, New York and Singapore, 1997, no. 18). cyclical date mistakenly interpreted as the eighth 圖四 唐英 山水圖 北京故
Geng Baochang lists eight brushpots and water year of Qianlong). The seals tao and zhu appear also 宮博物院收藏
© 北京故宮博物院
vessels for the scholar’s desk in the Palace Museum, on several other vessels, but the pianshi seal seems
Beijing, decorated and inscribed in grisaille either otherwise rare.
on a white ground or over guan or celadon glazes, Equally executed in this year and provided with the
which bear Tang Ying’s name or seals (Geng seals tao and zhu was a cup inscribed with poems
Baochang, ‘Tan Tang Ying kuan de ciqi ji qita [On in shaped panels on an iron-red flower-decorated
porcelains inscribed by Tang Ying and similar ground, sold three times in our Hong Kong rooms,
questions ]’, Jingdezhen taoci [Jingdezhen porcelain], 1979, 1994 and 2002, and illustrated in Sotheby’s:
1982, no. 2: Jinian Tang Ying dansheng sanbai zhounian Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 355.
zhuanji [Special issue commemorating the 300th The Palace Museum, Beijing, owns an even later
Anniversary of Tang Ying]). Three of these bear brushpot in form of a bamboo section, inscribed by
the same seals tao and zhu as our plaque, and one Tang Ying and dated to the last year of his life, 1756
of them, a small brushpot constructed as two (Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding [Appraisal of
interlocking lozenge-shaped receptacles of different Ming and Qing porcelain], Hong Kong, 1993, p. 291,
fig. 497).

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