Page 221 - important chinese art mar 22 2018

684

A ‘DEHUA’ TRIPOD CENSER
QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY
modeled in the form of an archaic bronze ding, the deep
rounded body supported on three slightly tapered hollow legs
and surmounted by a pair of upright loop handles, the exterior
of the body impressed around the center with a series of
kuilong against a leiwen ground all between raised ! llet bands
above and below, silver cover attributed to Zouruku Hata,
three Japanese wood boxes, one inscribed by Zouruku Hata
(8)
Height 4⅜ in., 11.1 cm
$ 6,000-8,000
૶ɤɖ ɤɞ˰ߏ ᅃʷͣཊ᙭Ꮂ७ཻόᘟ

684

685

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANN AND GORDON
GETTY
A PAIR OF UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND
COPPER-RED ‘LOTUS’ WASHERS AND
WATER DROPPERS
17TH CENTURY
685
each in the form of a furled lotus leaf-shaped washer, the
interior with underglaze-blue veins and a molded crab or shell
dressed in copper red, applied stems and pods wrapping
the underglaze-blue exterior, a bud-form water dropper with
686 copper-red striated petals set to one side (2)
Length 4¾ in., 12 cm
A SMALL WUCAI TEA CADDY
PROVENANCE
17TH CENTURY
Spink and Son, Ltd., London, 1994.
the cylindrical body bulging slightly at the sides, the # at
shoulder surmounted by a short waisted neck and lipped $ 6,000-8,000
rim, painted around the lower body in underglaze-blue and ɤɖ˰ߏ ڡڀཊ㛪ߎஃ໢Җݹஹ˥ဈɓ࿁
polychrome enamels with a cricket hopping amidst tall grasses
and aster, a poem extolling the joys of reclusion inscribed Ը๕
above and accompanied by two iron-red seals reading Mu lin Spink and Son Ltd dࡐ౱d1994ϋ
(wood forest), a cloud-scroll band encircling the shoulder, the
base unglazed, Japanese wood box (3)
Height 3⅝ in., 9.2 cm
A nearly identical tea caddy from the Guan Lu Yuan Collection
was included in the exhibition Chinese Porcelains of the
Seventeenth Century: Landscapes, Scholars’ Motifs and
Narratives, China Institute Gallery, New York, 1995, cat. no.
36. A related tea caddy bearing the same poem and painted in
underglaze blue and underglaze red sold in these rooms, 16th
September 2017, lot 839.
$ 4,000-6,000
ɤɖ˰ߏ ڡڀཊ㛪ߎڀᔥྡ་˖ʃ঩ᜦ
་˖j
ථ࠭ᘌટၯஹ˂ ഐࡈ߫咕ʔ൬፺
ݴ˥ٜஷ঩Ӧɨ ૠڀකΣٶґۃ

See catalogue note at sothebys com

686

IMPORTANT CHINESE ART 219