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PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
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AN YIXING STONEWARE 'AUBERGINE' WATER DROPPER
SIGNED CHEN MINGYUAN, EARLY QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The water dropper is finely potted in the shape of an elongated aubergine issuing from a short stem
and resting on two smaller aubergines. The lower section is modelled with a twig and three leaves. The
naturalistically potted stoneware is of rich dark-brown colour and the underside bears two incised seals.
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) long
£20,000-30,000 US$26,000-38,000
€22,000-33,000
PROVENANCE:
Mrs. Rene Dreyfus Collection.
Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1981.
Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 November 2011, lot 221.
Property from a Princely Collection.
The present lot may be compared with the aubergine water dropper attributed to Chen Mingyuan from
(mark)
the Gong Xinzhao collection published by Lai Suk Yee and Terese Tse Bartholomew in The Bei Shan
Tang Legacy: Yixing Zisha Stoneware, 2015, no. 128, p339.

貴族私人珍藏
清早期 陳鳴遠作宜興紫砂茄子形水盂
來源:
Rene Dreyfus夫人舊藏
Spink & Son Ltd., 倫敦,1981年
香港邦瀚斯, 2011年11月28日, 拍品221號

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