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48 Provenance 來源: a European private The Chinese word for ‘physical phenomena’
A wucai baluster jar collection is xiang, which is a pun on the word for
Shunzhi Roger Keverne Ltd., London elephant xiang. Illustrations depicting
Painted and enamelled with a mountainous Roy Davids Collection, no.109 elephants being washed became popular
landscape enclosing eight red-haired during the late Ming period. The ritual, sao
Westerners washing an elephant, and Illustrated 著錄: Roger Keverne Ltd., Fine xiang, symbolised spiritual purification and
another red-haired man presenting a vase and Rare Chinese Ceramics: Summer was meant to recover doctrinal orthodoxy
containing coral to two sages, all below a Exhibition, London, 2011, no.41 during a period of flux and dynastic change.
border of rocks and flowers at the neck.
28cm (11in) high Compare two jars with a similar scenes of
an elephant being washed illustrated by
£6,000 - 8,000 M.Butler, J.B.Curtis and S.Little, Treasures
HK$75,000 - 100,000 CNY59,000 - 79,000 from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain,
1644-1661, Seattle and London, 2002, p.94,
清順治 五彩胡人洗象圖罐 fig.2, and p.220, no.72.
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