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A GROUP OF FIVE CELADON GLAZED PORCELAINS WITH A POLYCHROME ENAMELED PORCLEAIN DRAGON VASE
FAMILLE ROSE DECORATIONS Daoguang seal mark, Republic period
Late Qing dynasty The ovoid body with low-set shoulder tapering inward to a cylindrical
Including a wide shallow bowl with foliate rim, a plate and three neck and trumpet mouth, covered overall with a profusion of
saucers, all painted in various opaque and translucent colored seasonal flowers on a gold ground as a background for five frolicking
enamels with combinations of flowers, fruit and insects on the gray- five-claw dragons rendered in red enamel, turquoise glaze on the
green glazed ground, each showing a maker’s mark of seal script interior (damage to rim).
type drawn in underglaze blue (bowl restored). 11 3/4in (30.2cm) high
13 3/4 to 7 1/2in (35 to 19cm) diameters
US$400 - 600
US$1,000 - 1,500
9379
9375 A WUCAI DECORATED DRAGON AND PHOENIX BOWL
TWO PORCELAIN CONTAINERS WITH IRON RED ENAMEL Qianlong mark
DECORATION Painted with underglaze blue and various overglaze enamels to
The first a cylindrical brush put painted with iron red dragons on a depict the Eight Buddhist Emblems in a decorative band above a
turquoise blue enamel ground, the recessed base bearing a six- red-bodied and a green bodied dragon separated by two descending
character Kangxi mark; the second a small meiping painted with phoenixes, the recessed base bearing the six-character mark in
continuous landscape peopled with a solitary boatman, a scholar and underglaze blue seal script (surface wear).
his servant, all painted in iron red with gilt highlights on the glazed 6 1/4in (16cm) diameter
white ground.
6 and 6 3/4in (15.2 and 17cm) high US$1,500 - 2,500
US$800 - 1,200 9380
A THREE-PANEL POLYCHROME ENAMELED PORCELAIN
9376 TABLE SCREEN
A POLYCHROME ENAMELED LONG NECK VASE The wood frame enclosing three likely associated rectangular plaques
Signed Xiong Xiaofeng (1914-1996) of tall section, the first depicting the Qiao sisters and bearing a
Its waisted neck molded in relief and colored in opaque enamels with renwu date (equivalent to 1942), bearing a signature perhaps reading
composite lotus flowers and tendrils while the globular body displays [Yu] Chengzhao, as well as a seal reading Chengzhao; the second
the Eight Buddhist emblems, similarly worked and separated by depicting a mounted Guan Yu below a poetic inscription bearing a
opposing circular reserves, each deftly painted with mountain-filled signature reading Li Bishan and illegible seal; the third elegantly and
landscapes rendered in soft colors, one landscape signed Xiaofeng intricately depicting a beauty in a garden setting inscribed with a
in black above the tiny red seal yin, the recessed base bearing an lengthy poetic inscription, and bearing a dingchou date (equivalent
impressed six-character Qianlong mark beneath the colorless glaze. to 1937), as well as bearing a signature reading Fang Yunfeng at
13in (33cm) high the Fuliang Xian Taoci Zhiye Xuexiao [The Fuliang County Ceramic
Vocational School], as well as a red seal possibly reading Fangshi.
US$2,000 - 3,000 14 3/4 to 15in (37.5 to 38cm) visible heights of porcelain plaques
A pair of polychrome enameled bowls, dated by inscription to 1943 US$4,000 - 6,000
and signed by Xiong Xiaofeng (1914-1996), were sold in Bonhams,
San Francisco, sale 20067, 11 December 2012, lot 8183. For works of Fang Yunfang (1897-1957) with maidens of similar
idiosyncratic appearance attired in robes in similarly rendered
9377 repeating patterns, see the two examples published in Simon Kwan,
A WUCAI ENAMELED DRAGON JAR The Muwen Tang Series: Chinese Porcelain of the Republic Period
Chenghua mark, Kangxi period [Muwen Tang Shoucang Quanji: Minguo Ciqi] (Hong Kong: Muwen
Painted in iron red, yellow, green and aubergine with black outlines to Tang Fine Arts Publication Ltd, 2008) no. 121 and 122, 296-299.
form the four panels of dragons amid clouds and flames surrounded The mention of the Fuliang County Ceramic Vocational School would
by a ground of overlapping feathers, the unglazed base centered theoretically allow one to date this plaque to 1931 or later, after
with a small glazed circular recess bearing the six-character mark the establishment of the school. (See Xinhuo Yinghua: Ershi Shiji
in underglaze blue standard script inscribed within a double ring Jingdezhen Ciyi Huigu [Innovations and Creations: A Retrospect
(repaired and repainted). of 20th Century Porcelain from Jingdezhen] (Hong Kong: Chinese
13 1/2in (34.3cm) high University of Hong Kong, 2004) 241 and 245).
US$1,200 - 1,800 However, there is one element that perhaps calls the Republic era
date of this plaque into question: the Fangshi seal on the plaque in
the present lot seems to be reversed in comparison to published
examples by the hand of Fang Yunfeng. See Zheng Niansheng and
Liu Yang, Jingdezhen Ciban Hua Jingpin Jianshi (Shanghai: Shanghai
Shuhua Chuban She, 2003) no. 173-175, 202-203 as well as Tie
Yuan and Xi Ming, Minguo Ciqi Jianding: Wenshi Kuanshi Banwei
(Beijing: Hualing Chuban She, 2004) 169.
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