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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
A CARVED CELADON-GLAZED ‘TAOTIE’ A FAMILLE-VERTE ‘ROMANCE OF THE
HU-FORM VASE WESTERN CHAMBER’ BALUSTER JAR AND A
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD COVER
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the generously proportioned pear-shaped body supported
on a stepped rounded foot and rising to a broad waisted robustly potted, rising from a spreading foot to a bulbous
neck and galleried rim, the neck set with a pair of protruding upper body and rounded shoulder supporting a broad
beast mask-form handles, each side of the body carved with straight neck, the body painted with a scene from the Yuan
a stylized taotie mask reserved against a leiwen ground, dynasty novel Xixiangji (Romance of the Western Chamber),
the neck carved with a double layer of floriform lappets, all the young scholar Zhang Junrui seated on a stool in front
beneath a seafoam-green glaze, the base glazed white of a bearded official attended by four court ladies, the hall
Height 10⅜ in., 26.3 cm appointed with furniture, antiques, and a painted screen
within finely detailed architecture, all between an iron-red
PROVENANCE
chevron band at the foot and green diaper band around
Sotheby’s London, 12th June 2003, lot 178. the shoulder with reserved shaped cartouches enclosing
beribboned ‘Precious Objects’, the neck with a selection of
$ 10,000-15,000 scholar’s objects, the domed cover with further scholar’s
objects within an iron-red shaped collar and surmounted by
a bud-form finial (2)
清康熙 青釉刻仿古饕餮紋獸耳尊 Height 13¾ in., 35 cm
來源 $ 5,000-7,000
倫敦蘇富比2003年6月12日，編號178
清康熙 五彩西廂記人物故事圖罐配蓋
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A MIRROR-BLACK-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
A WUCAI ‘HUNDRED BOYS’ JAR
the pear-shaped body rising to a tall slender neck, covered QING DYNASTY, SHUNZHI PERIOD
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above the unglazed foot ring, the base glazed white the baluster body surmounted by a straight neck and subtly
Height 17⅝ in., 44.8 cm lipped rim, vibrantly painted with a continuous scene of
boys playing in a balustraded garden, the children engaged
PROVENANCE in a variety of activities, including the ‘Four Scholarly
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat. Accomplishments’, the shoulder with a ‘cracked ice’ pattern
Bluett & Sons Ltd., London. below a band of further boys and rockwork at the neck
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York. Height 12¾ in., 32.3 cm
EXHIBITED PROVENANCE
Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics, Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Canadian Private Collection, acquired between the 1960s
Bernat, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1947, cat. no. 163. and 1980s, and thence by descent.
Later Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Mr & Mrs
Eugene Bernat, Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 1974, cat. no. 56. $ 5,000-7,000

$ 10,000-15,000 清順治 五彩百子圖罐

清十八世紀 黑釉長頸瓶 來源
加拿大私人收藏，購於1960年代至1980年代之間，
來源 此後家族傳承
Eugene Bernat 伉儷收藏
Bluett & Sons Ltd.，倫敦
Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約

展覽
《Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics, Lent by Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Bernat》，波士頓美術館，波士頓，1947年，
編號163
《Later Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Mr &
Mrs Eugene Bernat》，Bluett & Sons Ltd.，倫敦，1974
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年，編號56
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