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PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION PROVENANCE
A FAMILLE-ROSE ‘BAJIXIANG’ ALTAR VASE Offered at Sotheby’s New York, 19th-20th March 2013,
(GU) lot 219.
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
⊖ $ 10,000-15,000
of archaistic gu form, finely modeled with a trumpet neck
above a central bulb and a bell-shaped foot, the neck
decorated with four of the ‘Eight Buddhist Emblems’ 清乾隆
interspersed with leafy lotus scrolls between a band of
pendent ruyi heads above and border of stylized plantain
leaves below, all above a keyfret band enclosing an iron-red
six-character seal mark within a rectangular cartouche,
the central bulb enameled with further lotus blooms borne
on scrolling foliage, all supported on the high foot similarly
decorated with the four remaining ‘Buddhist Emblems’, the
interior of the neck and foot enameled turquoise
Height 10½ in., 26.8 cm
94 SOTHEBY’S COMPLETE CATALOGUING AVAILABLE AT SOTHEBYS.COM/N10644
PROPERTY FROM A NEW MEXICO PRIVATE COLLECTION in the history of imperial porcelain production in China, Tang
A LARGE LIME-GREEN-GROUND FAMILLE- Ying (1682-1756). Following the footsteps of his legendary
ROSE ‘BAJIXIANG’ TRIPOD CENSER predecessor, De Shun diligently fulfilled his duties, as well
as the emperor’s expectations during his seven years of
DAOGUANG MARK AND PERIOD service between 1832 and 1839. He successfully supervised
the first production of the renowned Shendetang marked
the globular body brightly enameled with the ‘Eight Buddhist
Emblems’ amidst meandering lotus scrolls extending wares, which subsequently set new standards for late Qing
porcelains. A small number of related censers bearing the
onto the cabriole legs, the shoulder with a band of ruyi same inscription of De Shun have been recorded, including
heads, flanked by a pair of pierced, upright curved handles
decorated with lotus blossoms and bats, the waisted neck an iron-red censer of the same form, in the collection of the
similarly decorated with lotus scrolls, all below a galleried Museum of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning,
published in Guangxi bowuguan gutaoci jingcui / Gems of
rim with a pink and blue keyfret border interrupted by two Ancient Ceramics in Guangxi Museum, Beijing, 2002, pl. 170.
horizontal cartouches on either side enclosing the six-
character mark and three characters reading Shanyuanan
(Shanyuan temple) in iron red, the underside with an $ 10,000-15,000
inscription translating to ‘respectively donated by De Shun,
Supervisor of the Jiujiang Custom’, the interior enameled 清道光 綠地粉彩纏枝蓮八吉祥紋朝冠耳三
turquoise
Height 16⅝ in., 42.2 cm 足爐
《大清道光年製》《善緣庵》《九江關監督
PROVENANCE
Collection of an American missionary, acquired in China. 德順敬獻》款
American Private Collection, received as a gift from the
above by 1947, and thence by descent. 來源
美國傳教士收藏，得於中國
De Shun was one of the superintendents of the imperial
kilns in Jingdezhen during the Daoguang period. The same 美國私人收藏，獲贈於上述處，於1947年已入藏，
position was once held by one of the most important figures 此後家族傳承
粉彩纏枝蓮八吉祥紋花觚
《大清乾隆年製》款
來源
上拍於紐約蘇富比2013年3月19至20日，編號219
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