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THE COLLECTION OF EILEEN AND I.M. PEI
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         2822
         A YIXING LOTUS PETAL-FORM WASHER BY               ᪺༒ᶑ   㡤㲍㑑θೞ⧂♟⊐Ⰹ‷མ᥆᧾
         CHEN MINGYUAN                                     ࣇ᪪厍㪀㺩㙭ㅳ
         KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
         Potted in the form of an incurved lotus petal with a stem forming
                                                           ൣ⿫
         the handle, the vessel is supported on a foot shaped as a lotus root
                                                           Ƕ໺⯞⡻⒬㪃⻱ཿǷ卿ԋஇ⧻ワ㱦ⵖ⧻ࢵ㙊▘卿⡥⡙卿
         and another foot shaped as a small snail. The base is impressed with
                                                           ჺ  ᝲ  ᚚ⯍    ჺ ᝲ  ᚚ
         an artist's seal, Chen Mingyuan Zhi (made by Chen Mingyuan).
                                                           ⡢‰㙪㩛⁞㞖ᙱࢷ⁒㱦卿ழ⻉ᙱఉ卿    ჺ ᝲ  ᚚ⯍
         5ƒ in. (13.8 cm.) long, cloth box
                                                           ჺ ᝲ  ᚚ
         HK$600,000-800,000             US$77,000-100,000  Ӳ⻼ႪՌᰲ⻱ワࢷ⁒㱦Ⴋٳᇪఫ᭄ᘘ⻦卿Ӳ⻼Ⴊ卿    ჺ ᝲ
                                                             ᚚ⯍    ჺ ᝲ  ᚚ
         EXHIBITED
         New York, China House Gallery / China Institute in America,   ഌ㛢ᝯࢷ⁒㱦卿Ƕ-PZBMUZ BOE %JTTFOU JO 5SBEJUJPOBM $IJOFTF
         I-Hsing Ware, 28 October 1977 - 29 January 1978   1BJOUJOH BOE $BMMJHSBQIZǷ卿⡥⡙卿    ჺ ᝲ  ᚚ⯍    ჺ
         Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins   ᝲ ᚚ
         Museum of Fine Arts, 19 February - 21 May 1978
         San Francisco, The Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art   ⮐㙽
         Museum of San Francisco, 16 June – 21 September 1978  ㌎⇧ⵖ卿Ƕ໺⯞⡻⒬㪃⻱ཿǷ卿⡥⡙卿    ჺ卿㮰  卿⤔⽚
         New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loyalty and Dissent

         in Traditional Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 30 March - 9   ӳᱡࢷ⁒㱦g㲞ᳰԋᙔഌໝᙔ⁒㱦भ㗤卿Ƕ⡻᯵᳖㮫 㪀㺩㙭
         September 1990
                                                           㪃⻱Ⓔ♾Ƿ卿㲞ᳰ卿    ჺ卿㮰   卿⤔⽚  卿எ
         LITERATURE
         Terese Tse Bartholomew, I-Hsing Ware, New York, 1977, p.61,   ᰚս⸥≓ה᭢⏇卿჌⸥⸤៨ⴏהᐍᏛ卿に〾ה଍㑷卿Ԇսज़㞏ᐃᯧங⟬
         no. 37                                            㿩ⰰ⸥≓ӳᳳ᠎ⰰᆭ卿⊂࡚۔▵卿ࢎᇵℒ㙛ǯ଍ᄓⶔǸ㪀㺩㙭ㅳǹᙹ᪪ǯ
         The Shanghai Museum and the Art Museum, The Chinese   ऱ㯸׾ຽἃᙇӶഅ卿⧻இ᛿້ᙙ⯠⻦Ӭ׾卿㙁௛ഌ⯎⏟ऱ卿     ჺ   ᝲ
         University of Hong Kong, Themes and Variation: The Zisha Pottery      ᚚᙻ⡥⡙צ೥ᇑᐽ㐈卿ᐽ৅      ⽚卻ॲː卼ǯ᯳೥㯀⧻ワ㱦⻦औӬ
         of Chen Mingyuan, Hong Kong, 1997, p. 114, no. 28, fig. 1
                                                           ։卿㖊ᙻ )FMFO $PNTUPDL ⶬǴ4PNF &YBNQMFT PG * ITJOH 1PUUFSZǵ卿
         Examples of Yixing vessels in this form and design are very rare.   Ƕ$POOPJTTFVSǷ卿     ჺ   ᝲ卿㮰   ǯ
         One example from the Blumenfield Collection was included in the
         Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition Yixing Pottery, 7 October - 13
         December 1981, Catalogue p. 90, no. 32, and illustrated in publications
         including K.S. Lo, The Stonewares of Yixing from the Ming Period to the
         Present Day, Hong Kong, 1986, p. 221, no. 143; Sydney L. Moss Ltd.,
         The Literati Mode, London, 1986, pp. 228-9, no. 104; and Lai Suk Yee
         and Terese Tse Bartholemew ed., Themes and Variations: The Zisha
         Pottery of Chen Mingyuan, Shanghai Museum and Art Museum, The
         Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997, p. 114, fig. 2. This was sold at
         Christie's New York, 22 March, 2012, lot 1249 (fig .1). Another example
         is illustrated by Helen Comstock, "Some Examples of I-hsing Pottery,"
         Connoisseur, Vol. CIV (March 1942), p. 75.















            2822 (mark)                                                  fig. 1  Blumenfield Collection,
                                                                 sold at Christie’s New York, 22 March 2012, lot 1249
                                                             எӬ  ᛿້ᙙ⯠⻦卿     ჺ   ᝲ    ᚚᙻ⡥⡙צ೥ᇑᐽ㐈卿ᐽ৅      ⽚


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