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309 A FAMILLE-VERTE ⌲Ꮴ⛆ ρᒖ㟞划ృ㾖᪴ᄼ᷿ỹ⨣
‘BIRD AND FLOWER’
INSCRIBED ROULEAU
VASE
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Ralph M Chait Galleries秣秉
Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
the cylindrical form ! nely enameled with a
depiction of a bird, short strokes of brown
and iron-red de! ning its plumage, perched
on a gnarled branch amid a profusion of
$ owers in iron red, yellow, aubergine and blue,
the multilayered petals carefully articulated
against twisting leaves of varying green tones,
with a two-line poetic inscription signed
Yunqiao and a seal mark Zhushiju, a foliate
band reserved on a spiral green ground on
the shoulder, a lea! ng bamboo stalk in black
curving around the neck, coll. no. 1589
Height 10 in., 25.4 cm

PROVENANCE
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Combining image and text on porcelain was
one of many innovations instituted by the
skilled artisans of Jingdezhen during the
Kangxi period. The calligraphy on the present
vase reads Juanjuan yuye fen qianye zhuozhuo
qihua sai baihua which may be translated
as “The curled auspicious leaves breaking
into thousands, the luminous jade $ owers
outshining hundreds of other $ owers”. The
seal mark Zhushiju (Bamboo Retreat) appears
on other Kangxi wares painted with literati
themes. A famille-verte dish bearing the same
studio mark from the Butler Collection is
illustrated in Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen
Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and
the Butler Collections, London, 2006, cat.
no. 113. Wang Qingzheng, in an introductory
essay, remarks that there may have been an
association between literati painters of the
period and certain specialized studios such as
Zhushiju which had a reputation for producing
high quality porcelains (ibid., p. 47).
$ 10,000-15,000

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