Page 82 - Metropolitan Museum Collection September 2016

&851

A BLUE AND WHITE PETAL-MOLDED DISH

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

The center of the interior is decorated with a scholar
accompanied by his attendant standing beside a crane beneath
a towering pine tree. The well is decorated with petal-form
panels enclosing precious objects beneath shaped panels
enclosing double peaches. The base is inscribed with an
apocryphal Chenghua mark.
10¿ in. (27.1 cm.) diam.

$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE

Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1904) Collection, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in
1879.

清康熙 青花高士觀鶴圖盤

來源
Samuel Putnam Avery（1822-1904）珍藏， 紐約。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1879年。

&852

TWO BLUE AND WHITE VASES

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

The frst is a blue and white pear-shaped bottle-vase,

painted with alternating vertical panels of a lady holding a fan

in a garden and an arrangement of antiques below elaborate

lappet borders on the neck. The second is a cylindrical vase

decorated with two registers of panels enclosing baskets of

fowers and antiques.

Pear-shaped vase 10¿ in. (25.7 cm.) high,

cylindrical vase 6¿ in. (15.5 cm.) high (2)

$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE

William Rhinelander Stewart (1852-1929) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in
1929.

清康熙 青花長頸瓶及青花罐

來源
William Rhinelander Stewart（1852-1929）珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1929年。

William Rhinelander Stewart (1852-1929), was a
philanthropist and fnancier, who dedicated his life to the
betterment of New York. Stewart was the New York State
Commissioner for the World’s Fair when it was held in New
York City in 1883, and was a trustee of several banks and real
estate companies including the Greenwich Savings Bank, and
a member of many prestigious social clubs. He is best known
for conceiving the famous arch in Washington Square Park
in 1889, which was frst built to celebrate the centennial of
George Washington’s inauguration and is now a well-known
landmark of New York City.

80