Page 17 - Sotheby's Jie Rui Tang Collection Part II Kangxi Porcelain March 2019

305 A FINE AND RARE 清康熙 青花開光釋道圖詩文爐
BLUE AND WHITE
CENSER

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
of bombé form supported on a gently Unlike other forms relating religious subject 來源
splayed, channeled foot, finely painted with matter with a focus on one doctrine, the Marchant，倫敦，2002年
two rectangular panels, one a Daoist scene present censer is unusual with its two panels
enclosing the Eight Immortals each holding of decoration, one referencing Buddhism, 出版
an identifying attribute, gathering to pay the other Daoism. Although neither tradition Jeffrey P. Stamen、Cynthia Volk 及倪亦斌，
homage to Shoulao sitting beneath a craggy was exclusive and often overlapped in the 《文采卓然：潔蕊堂藏康熙盛世瓷》，布呂
pine tree flanked by a recumbent deer and a course of daily life, painted references rarely 赫，2017年，圖版77
standing attendant, the other panel depicting depict the two faiths simultaneously. However,
three luohan, one holding a leaf seated on an their coexistence, along with a third popular
elephant, another with a pearl in the palm of doctrine of Confucianism, was long understood
one hand resting on a lion, and the third with and appreciated as the three ideological pillars
arms folded and seated atop a recumbent of Chinese spiritual practice.
deer, the panels divided by poetic couplets, The Daoist inscription may be translated as
coll. no. 354
‘Expanding the boundary of longevity of the
Diameter 7 in., 17.8 cm South Palace, Drinking with the precious Cup
of Red Cloud at the East Sea’; the Buddhist
PROVENANCE
couplet is from the poem Su Longxingsi (A
Marchant, London, 2002. Night at the Longxing Temple) by the Tang
dynasty poet Qi Wuqian and reads, ‘The bright
LITERATURE
sun conveys the pureness of the [Buddhist]
Jeffrey P. Stamen, Cynthia Volk with Yibin Ni, A heart, The green lotus expresses the
Culture Revealed, Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain subtleness of Buddhism’.
from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges, 2017,
cat. no. 77.
$ 20,000-30,000

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