Page 10 - Fine Chinese Art Bonhams London May 2018

Marchesa and Marchese Taliani de Marchio examining objects

Marchese Taliani was a distinguished Italian diplomat who lived through Toscana (1894 - 1986), were arrested and interned by the Japanese
major historical upheavals of the first half of the 20th century, events in a concentration camp near Shanghai, where they remained for
whose impact affect all to this day. His first diplomatic appointment two years until the end of the war. After the end of hostilities, the new
was to Berlin in 1912; followed by Constantinople in 1913, where government of Alcide De Gasperi reconfirmed him as Ambassador to
during the First World War he negotiated an agreement for the China until 1946.
protection of Italian citizens and interests in the (soon to be demise)
Ottoman Empire. From 1916 to 1919 he served in St Petersburg, and Many of the purchase invoices survive, providing an important
under the privilege of diplomatic immunity was in a unique position documentation of Chinese art dealers active in Shanghai and Beijing
to observe and chronicle first-hand the October Revolution, its day between 1938 and 1946. The majority of the invoices are dated to
by day development, the subsequent fall of Tsarist Russia and the between December 1938 and July 1943, with a significant gap until
establishment of the Soviet Republic; from 1919 he served in Rome April 1946, explained by Marchese and Marchesa Taliani’s internment
as Secretary of State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; with later by the Japanese. The long list of dealers demonstrates the vibrant
assignments to London (1921 - 1923) and again to Constantinople Chinese art market in Shanghai and Beijing in the late 1930s and early
(1924 – 1928), this time as the Republic of Turkey; from 1929 - 1930 1940s; this list includes the following:
he was in Rome as Head of Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
in 1932 he was appointed Italian Ambassador to the Netherlands; in In Shanghai - K. D. Lu, Yee Chun Chang, C. K. Chou, Strehlneek’s
1938 he was appointed Ambassador to China, where he remained Gallery of Chinese Art, The Midoh Co., Tung Koo Tsar Chinese Curios
until 1946; and his last diplomatic appointment was in 1951 as & Arts Co., Philip Chu, Zui Wha Curios & Co., T. Y. King & Co., King
Ambassador to Spain until 1952. Koo Chai, Tai Loong & Co., Tin Dao Shan Fang, Y. L. Hong, Chu Tsun
Tsai, The China Curios Co., Hsueh Ken Chai, Zung Chang Ziang Co.,
Sent to China in 1938 as Ambassador to the Nationalist Government The Little Pagoda, M. L. Kwauh, Hoggard – Sigler, and Foo Yuen Tsai.
of Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, he became an acute - and far from
humourless, despite the hardships of everyday life - front line eye- In Beijing - J. Plaut, Jung Hsing Chai, Mathias Komor, Tung Ku Chai
witness of the Second Sino-Japanese War, during which the Japanese Curio and Picture Store, Yi Pao Chai Jade Store, Jung Hsing Chai, Wan
forces captured the capital and attacked Shanghai. When Mussolini E. Cheng, Yung Pao Chia Jade Store, Mario Prodan, and Tung Yi & Co.
recognised Wang Jingwei’s Japanese puppet government, Taliani
presented his credentials to him. On 8 September 1943, having Marchese Taliani published three books: Pietrogrado 1917, Milan,
refused to swear allegiance to the Italian Social Republic (Republic 1935; È Morto in Cina, Milan, 1949; and Dopoguerra a Shanghai,
of Salò), he and his wife, the Archduchess Margaretha d’Austria Milan, 1958.

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE 女爵藏品

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A RARE JUNYAO CRACKLE-GLAZED DISH Provenance: Francesco Maria, Marchese Taliani de Marchio (1887 -
1968), Grand Officer of the Italian Crown, Commander of the Order
13th century
Heavily potted with shallow rounded sides supported on a recessed base of St Maurice and Lazarus, and Commander of the Order of Pius
raising to an everted rim, all under a thick lavender-blue glaze suffused IX (Ordine Piano), and his wife Archduchess Margaretha d’Austria
with fine crackling, thinning above the foot to reveal the buff ware. Toscana, Marchesa Taliani de Marchio (1894 – 1986).
19.3cm (7 5/8in) diam. Acquired from The China Curios Co., Shanghai, 7 December 1941

來源： 佛朗西斯高•瑪利亞，塔里安利•得•馬基奧侯爵（1887-
£2,000 - 4,000 1968）及馬加烈特•奧地利-托斯卡納女大公，塔里安利•得•馬基
CNY18,000 - 36,000 奧女侯爵（1894-1986）伉儷收藏
於1941年12月7日購自上海古董商中國古玩社
十三世紀 鈞窯冰裂紋盤

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