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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN 重要中४藝術暨高曼珍藏

The Property of a Gentleman
~998
Another Property
A RARE ENAMELED FAUX-PUDDINGSTONE 'Puddingstone' is a generic term applied to any conglomerate 999
PEACH-SHAPED BOX AND COVER sedimentary rock that is characterized by colorful inclusions. The
19TH CENTURY conglomerate is composed of pebbles that have been worn smooth by A FINELY PAINTED BLUE AND
water and have been cemented together by a finer mineral deposit. This WHITE CONG-FORM VASE
The undecorated recessed base is inscribed in iron red with an apocryphal finer mineral deposit fills in the spaces between the pebbles and forms REPUBLIC PERIOD
Qianlong seal mark.
a solid rock. The particular puddingstone that was admired in China
3¼ in. (8.2 cm.) wide, box, hardwood stand The vase is finely painted in the style of Wang Bu
was formed from pebbles of jasper cemented together with quartz, (1898-1968), and the base is inscribed with an
$5,000-7,000 and it is this that the ceramic decorator of the current box has so apocryphal Qianlong seal mark.
successfully recreated on porcelain.
PROVENANCE: 16¿ in. (41.2 cm.) high
Acquired in New York prior to 1990. $10,000-15,000
An identically-shaped box and cover decorated with a slight variation of
this pattern was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 22 March 1993, lot 772. A
ૈ♥珍藏 very similarly decorated round box and cover from the collection of Sir 民४ 青花英雄鬥志琮式瓶
清十̏ˠ紀 仿抱子⊅釉桃形蓋盒
Harry and Lady Garner, now in the Meiyintang Collection, is illustrated
Ϝ源 by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.
1990年עՆ藏於紐☼
2, London, 1994, p. 267, no. 954, where the author dates it to the early
19th century. Compare, also, a Qianlong-period faux-puddingstone
quadrilobed box and cover from the Robert H. Blumenfield Collection,
sold at Christie's New York, 25 March 2010, lot 877.

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