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Francis Capel Harrison served as a long standing civil servant in India
(1884-1911), and in his later years was appointed Head Commissioner
of Paper Currency before returning to London where he became a
Member of Parliament and a correspondent for the Economic Journal.
Much of his collection, including the present vase, was exhibited in
the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford since 1903 and for about twenty The rich red glaze characterising the present meiping exemplifies
years, prior to 130 pieces being sold with Bluett’s in 1925. He acquired the technical accomplishments achieved in producing glazes of
objects from Sparks as well as Bluett’s. See R.David and D.Jellinek, remarkable brilliance, colours and texture, during the reign of the
Provenance, Collectors, Dealers and Scholars in the Field of Chinese Qianlong emperor.
Ceramics in Britain and America, 2011, p.223.
Copper-red glazed vessels were revived during the reign of the Kangxi
Baron Alexander von Meyendorff (1869-1964) was the son of the emperor in an effort to reproduce the classic sacrificial-red, or jihong
Russian diplomat Felix Meyendorff and Olga, Princess Gorchakov. porcelain wares of the Ming dynasty, notably the specimens dating to
After a military career and then a short political career reaching the the Hongwu and Xuande reigns. Recording the production of copper-
position of the Deputy Parliamentary President of the Duma, following red-glaze at Jingdezhen during the Kangxi reign, French Jesuit Pere
the Russian Revolution in February 1917, he was appointed as the Francois D’Entrecolles (1664-1741) acknowledged the difficulties
Ambassador of the Provisional Russian Government to Great Britain in involved in making the highly-sought-after glaze and the refined skills
London. During the turmoil of the October Revolution he managed to of the potters. Copper-red glazes vessels featuring a skilfully controlled
flee to London, arriving there in 1919, where he was Reader in Russian application of the glaze continued to be manufactured during the
Institutions and Economics at the London School of Economics, reigns of the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors, with the former
1922-1934. taking an active interest in ensuring the production of red-glazed
vessels characterised by the right glaze thinness and texture.
弗蘭西斯·坎貝爾·哈里森早年長期在印度擔任事務官，後來又被任命
為貨幣發行委員會高級事務官。榮歸故里後，成為英國國會議員及 For a similar copper-red-glazed vase, meiping, Qianlong seal mark
《經濟學雜誌》的記者。他的大部分藏品於1903年便借展牛津阿什 and of the period, see The Tsui Museum of Art: Chinese Ceramics
莫林博物館，展期超過二十餘年，其中也包括此件拍品。直到1925 Vol.IV Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no.39, which was later sold
年，英國古董商Bluett’s受委託終於將其共130件收藏品全部售出。他 at Christie’s Hong Kong, 5 November 1997, lot 864; and see also
的藏品大多購自於Sparks，Bluett’s等知名古董商，更多關於此藏家信 another example in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, illustrated by
息，見.David與D.Jellinek著，《Provenance, Collectors, Dealers and U.Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, Mainz am Rhein, Hildesheim,
Scholars in the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain and America》 1981, pl.99.
，2011年，頁223。
A similar copper-red glazed meiping, Qianlong mark and of the period,
亞歷山大·馮梅耶多夫男爵是俄羅斯外交家菲利克斯·梅耶多夫與其 was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 10th April 2006, lot 1521. For a
妻，戈爾恰科夫公主之子。在短暫的軍旅及政治生涯後，他成為了俄 similar copper-red meiping but from the Yongzheng period, see one
羅斯國家杜馬的國會副總理。1917年俄國二月革命時，他被任命為俄 sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3614.
國臨時政府駐大不列顛大使館大使，十月革命布爾什維克推翻臨時政
府後，他遷居倫敦並於1919年定居。於1922年至1934年間，在倫敦
政治經濟學院俄羅斯研究院擔任講師一職。

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