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TWO RARE POTTERY ‘SANSKRIT’ JARS Provenance: Ton-ying & Co., Paris (label) TWO CIZHOU-TYPE BROWN-GLAZED
AND COVERS CARVED JARS
Song/Yuan Dynasty 來源：巴黎古董商通運公司（標籤） Yuan/Ming Dynasty
The taller baluster jar incised around the Both ovoid jars with slip and biscuit decoration
exterior with Sanskrit inscriptions, the base Ton-ying & Co. was established in Paris in of lotus and foliage, one with lappets on the
with a talismanic inscription, the domed cover 1902 by Zhang Renjie (1877-1950), also shoulder and with slightly greenish glaze.
with lotus-petal lappets and further Sanskrit known as Zheng Jingjiang, or ‘Curio’ Zhang, 24.5cm (9 5/8in) high. (2).
letters surmounted by a pagoda-roof finial, the millionaire financier, Nationalist Government
grey jar similarly inscribed with Sanskrit letters, official and patron of both Sun Yat-sen and £2,000 - 3,000
the domed cover surmounted with a pointed Chiang Kai-shek. He did much to help finance CNY18,000 - 27,000
finial. The taller, 31.5cm (12 3/8in) high. (4). the Nationalist cause, together with C.T.Loo.
In 1902, as attache on the staff of the Qing Please note this Lot is to be sold at
£1,200 - 1,500 government in Paris, he established the Ton- No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
CNY11,000 - 14,000 ying Company, importing works of art and
tea and silk. In 1928 he became governor 元/明 磁州系褐釉剔花罐 一組兩件
Please note this Lot is to be sold at of Zhejiang Province. In 1925 his friend Li
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 Shizeng became Chairman of the newly Provenance: Dr Arthur M. Sackler (1913-
created Palace Museum and in 1933 Zhang 1987), New York, (acc.nos.3804A-B),
宋/元 陶塔式蓋罐 一組兩件 oversaw the removal of the greater part of the acquired prior to 1978.
Imperial Collections to Shanghai. He left China Christie’s New York, 2 October 2009, lot 296
in 1938 and after the outbreak of war in 1939, (part lot)
507 went from Europe to New York, where he
A CIZHOU PAINTED BALUSTER VASE died. His contacts and position in China made Published, Illustrated and Exhibited:
Ming Dynasty Ton-ying & Co. a conduit for high-quality Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition,
The tapering broad-shouldered body pieces, which he supplied to Bluett’s, Sparks London, 2010, no.27 (jar with acc.no.3804B)
decorated in brownish-black on a cream slip and other dealers, while also dealing himself.
with two lobed panels depicting respectively a 來源：紐約亞瑟·M.賽克勒（1913-1987）
deer and a crane, both creatures amidst wispy See a related example dated 1541, in the 舊藏，藏品編號s.3804A-B，於1978年前入藏
clouds and flowering branches, all between Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell 紐約佳士得，2009年10月2日，拍品編號296
wavy-line borders at the shoulder, neck and University, illustrated by Yutaka Mino, Freedom （部分）
foot, the rim and the interior under a brown of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries
glaze. 27.5cm (10 7/8in) high. in Northern China: Ts’u-chou Type Wares, 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季
960–1600 A.D., Indianapolis, 1980, pl.84. 展覽》，倫敦，2010年，編號27（編號為
£800 - 1,200 s.3804B者）
CNY7,200 - 11,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

明 磁州系開光鹿鶴同春紋罐

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