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Related comparable large vases but more summarily painted with ⚥㕜⽇暟긬诡⚥❠鋅侷⢾湱㣐櫕կ鋅♧ꫬ蔄
shaped panels enclosing beasts and ! owers reserved on a stippled 問圕櫕⢾㽯㼄湱殹粭➃暟佦✲㕭⻌❩佦㹨
ground include one illustrated in Walter Bondy, K’ang-hsi, Munich, 1923, ⽇暟ꤎ佐诡㕭鯺倴꤫情字箠շ佦㹨⽇暟ꤎ诡
pp. 136 and 140 and two from Collection of John D. Rockefeller and the 幡➿櫘㐼鼆ո⽷1շ幡갫屛䐀擳劊ꫬ蔄櫘ո
Metropolitan Museum of Art sold at Christie’s New York 15th September ⻌❩2005䎃㕭晜293կ〥鋅♧ꫬ蔄⢾粭㿋宐
2016, lots 870 and 871. 㕭诡♳嵳⽇暟긬ꏖշ♳嵳⽇暟긬诡䐀擳櫘㕭
ꏖո껺度1998䎃㕭晜52剅⚥ꤶ僈螟㼩姼櫕
It appears few examples of these important large scale vases are in
鐱⭆欨넞կ
Chinese museum collections. A blue and white rouleau vase of the same
height painted with a " gural scene is in the Palace Museum, Beijing and 劥ㅷ⢵彂噱⢕剒ⴲ歋鸑麋Ⱆ぀㈒ⴀկ鸑麋Ⱆ
illustrated in Chen Runmin, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai ciqi ぀歋䓹➃⪁ 1877 1950 倴1902䎃ⶾ用կ䓹孒
lei xuan [Qing porcelains from the Palace Museum Collection Selected ⛇殹儗幡䒄꽏䊼랫㣐⢪ꦐ㆞鷳麔劊⚥➃腟
by Type], vol. 1: Qing Shunzhi Kangxi chao qinghua ci [Blue-and-white 䱹鍹㹨䒄顜ⱋ谀遮佐诡կ䓹孒倴1939䎃獴㾀姗
porcelain of the Shunzhi and Kangxi reigns of the Qing], Beijing, 2005, 崍䖔鼃荛秢秉կ鸑麋Ⱆ぀荈1925䎃饰鸑麔秢
pl. 293. Another blue and white vase of the same impressive dimensions 秉 American Art Associates 莉遤麔㢴㜥䬝颪կ
but painted with a landscape is in the Shanghai Museum and illustrated 鑪䬝遤倴1938䎃歋 Parke Bernet Galleries 䱹
in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong 䱍䖔➠糒糵莉遤鸑麋Ⱆ぀䬝颪荛❀⼧䎃➿կ刿
Kong, 1998, pl. 52. In describing the vase, Lu Minghua comments 㢴鑬䞔〳⿮罌 Roy Davids ⿻ Dominic Jellinek,
particularly on both the technical skill required to model such large շProvenance: Collectors, Dealers & Scholars
pieces and the superlative quality of the painting. in the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain &
AmericaոGreat Haseley2011䎃갤421 422կ
Provenance from Tonying & Co. is notable. The company was founded
in 1902 by Zhang Renjie (1877-1950) who was an attaché of the Qing
government to Paris. Through favorable government connections Zhang
enjoyed privileged access to art collections of the nobility as well as the
imperial family. Zhang emigrated from China in 1939, living " rst in Europe
and then in New York. From at least 1925 the " rm held several sales
through the American Art Associates in New York, which in 1938 was
taken over by Parke-Bernet Galleries who continued to hold auctions for
Tonying through the 1950s. For further reading on the subject see Roy
Davids and Dominic Jellinek, Provenance: Collectors, Dealers & Scholars
in the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain & America, Great Haseley, 2011,
pp 421-422.

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