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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘ROMANCE The scene on this vase is from Act III, Part A BLUE AND WHITE ‘DEER AND
OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER’ BOTTLE 4, when Lady Cui Yingying sends Zhang CRANES’ VASE
VASE Junrui off to the capital to take the Imperial Kangxi
Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi examination. The poem on the vase, however, Painted around the exterior in vibrant tones
The compressed globular body set with a tall is adopted from another story, Yangjiafu of cobalt-blue with a continuous garden
cylindrical neck with a lipped mouth, finely Shidai Zhongyong Tongsu Yanyi (the story of scene, various deer and a gnarled pine tree
painted around the exterior in cobalt-blue courageous and loyal generations of the Yang amidst rockwork beneath flying cranes above,
with a continuous scene of Lady Cui Yingying family), first published in 1606, it reads: all beneath a band of the Eight Buddhist
sitting on a terrace of an elegantly decorated Emblems around the neck, wood cover.
pavilion, gazing at her lover Zhang Junrui and 遲遲麗日布韶光, 春到人間景異常。 24cm (9 1/2in) high. (2).
his attendants carrying cases, fans and a qin, 雨後江山增秀麗, 風前花柳競芬芳。
a poem written on the neck. 尋香戲蝶輕翻拍, 求友嬌鶯巧奏簧。 £3,000 - 5,000
42.5cm (16 3/4in) high. 景物撩人無限好, 不妨收拾入詩腸。 CNY27,000 - 45,000

£8,000 - 12,000 Which may be translated as: 清康熙 青花鶴鹿同春圖罐
CNY72,000 - 110,000
‘Late in the gloaming evening, Spring arrives Provenance: Sir William Henry Wilkinson
清康熙 青花西廂記故事圖長頸瓶 with unusual scenery. (1858-1930), Consul General in China
After the rain the mountains and rivers
青花「大明成化年製」楷書仿款 increase in beauty, before the breeze the between 1900 and 1917, and thence by
fragrant willows and flowers vie. descent.
The Romance of the Western Chamber, Searching for incense the fluttering butterflies,
written by Wang Shifu (1250-1300) was seeking a friend to play the flute. 來源：
immensely popular among all levels of society. Nothing compares to the scenery, so you may William Henry Wilkinson爵士（1858-1930）
Woodblock illustrations in the many editions wish to etch it on your poetic heart’ 收藏，1900至1917年期間任駐華領事，並由
helped conventionalise images that were 後人保存迄今
instantly recognisable to the general public, Compare with very similar scene on a vase,
thus creating a corpus of motifs that was Kangxi, in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
widely used by painters, silk embroiderers, London (acc.no.635&A-1903).
lacquer workers and other craftsmen.

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