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THE COLLECTION OF EILEEN AND I.M. PEI
ㆮ⢘㘝ۢ↴᪉⬹૲௤Ὂⳉ
2823
A YIXING CHESTNUT-FORM CUP AND A YIXING ᪺༒ᶑ
MODEL OF A CHESTNUT BY CHEN MINGYUAN 㴥㒋䢰㡤㲍㑑䢱θೞ⧂♟⊐Ӑ⁦ᖴᘤۣᘤಡ↛ՐՊͭ
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
㠺ᙔ厍ᛀהྒྷԋ⁒卿իἃ჈ӳⅧǯ㽁ឭ
The cluster of chestnuts are potted in various sizes, carved on
one side with a couplet reading xi zuo shan zhong wu, jin wei xi ࣇ᪪厍㙭Ǯ㽁㚧
shang zhen (it used to live in the hills, now it is a delicacy on the
table), followed by a name He Cun, alias of Chen Mingyuan, ൣ⿫
and an impressed seal, yuan. The cluster includes a loose chestnut Ƕ໺⯞⡻⒬㪃⻱ཿǷ卿ԋஇ⧻ワ㱦ⵖ⧻ࢵ㙊▘卿⡥⡙卿
impresed with a seal reading He Cun. ჺ ᝲ ᚚ⯍ ჺ ᝲ ᚚ
Larger: 3 in. (7.6 cm.) long, cloth box (2) ⡢‰㙪㩛⁞㞖ᙱࢷ⁒㱦卿ழ⻉ᙱఉ卿 ჺ ᝲ ᚚ⯍
HK$200,000-300,000 US$26,000-38,000 ჺ ᝲ ᚚ
Ӳ⻼ႪՌᰲ⻱ワࢷ⁒㱦Ⴋٳᇪఫ᭄ᘘ⻦卿Ӳ⻼Ⴊ卿 ჺ ᝲ
PROVENANCE
ᚚ⯍ ჺ ᝲ ᚚ
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
Museum of Fine Arts, 19 February - 21 May 1978 ᝲ ᚚ
San Francisco, The Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art
Museum of San Francisco, 16 June – 21 September 1978 ⮐㙽
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loyalty and Dissent ㌎⇧ⵖ卿Ƕ໺⯞⡻⒬㪃⻱ཿǷ卿⡥⡙卿 ჺ卿㮰 卿⤔⽚
in Traditional Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 30 March - 9
September 1990

LITERATURE
Terese Tse Bartholomew, I-Hsing Ware, New York, 1977, p.74,
no. 49

2823 (marks) inscription
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