Page 431 - 2020 Sept Important Chinese Art Sotheby's NYC Asia Week

9/2/2020 Important Chinese Art | Sotheby's

Provenance
Collection of Dr. Harry Willis Miller (1879-1977), acquired in Asia while working as a medical missionary, and thence by descent.

來源
Harry Willis Miller 醫生 (1879-1977) 收藏，於亞洲任職醫學傳教士期間入藏，此後家族傳承

Catalogue Note
Cheng Men (d. before 1908), zi Songsheng, hao Xueli or Lidaoren, was a porcelain painting master active during the late Qing
dynasty. He practiced in the qianjiang enameling style, which is characterized by its use of a restrained palette in pale washes,
giving the porcelains painted in this style the look of watercolors. This style is said to be based on literati painting, and was popular
during the late Qing and early Republic periods. Compare a porcelain plaque by Cheng Men, painted with a scholar and an
attendant carrying qin in a landscape, in the Muwentang Collection, illustrated in Simon Kwan, Chinese Porcelain of the Republic
Period, Hong Kong, 2008, pl. 1; and a set of four landscape plaques, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30th May 2012, lot 4266.

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