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THE COLLECTION OF EILEEN AND I.M. PEI
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2821

A YIXING BAMBOO SHOOT-FORM WATER POT
BY CHEN MINGYUAN
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Potted in the form of a bamboo shoot, the waterpot is raised on
three mushroom-form feet with the base impressed with an artist's
seal, Chen Mingyuan zhi (made by Chen Mingyuan).
5¿ in. (13 cm.) long, cloth box
HK$600,000-800,000 US$77,000-100,000

EXHIBITED
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loyalty and Dissent
in Traditional Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 30 March - 9
September 1990
LITERATURE
The Shanghai Museum and the Art Museum, The Chinese detail of base
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University of Hong Kong, Themes and Variation: The Zisha Pottery
of Chen Mingyuan, Hong Kong, 1997, p. 164, fig. 5
See a similar Yixing bamboo shoot-form water dropper impressed with
a Chen Mingyuan seal from the Chen Keli (1908- after 1985) Collection,
illustrated by Chen Keli in Yangxian shaqi jingpin tupu (An Illustrated
Catalogue of Yangxian Stonewares), Taipei, 1985, pl. 33; in Themes and
Variations: The Zisha Pottery of Chen Mingyuan, Shanghai Museum &
the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997, p. 165,
fig. 7; and in Ming er yuan xi: Chen Mingyuan taoyi yanjiu, Beijing, 2016.
This was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2018, lot 2933 (fig. 1).

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