- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Vase (a) with wooden stand (b), in a hinged box with inscription. Very thinly potted. With spurious square four-character Qianlong mark on base in blue enamel.
Clay: porcelain of finest quality.
Glaze: porcelain glaze, overall effect slightly grayish.
Decoration: Qianlong style overglaze enamels. Elaborate borders at lip and base; finely executed painting of birds, flowers, rock and stunted tree. Bead ornaments are pendant from lip border. Poem in black with red seals.
- Inscription(s)
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1. Spurious square 4-character Qianlong (Ch'ien-lung) mark on base in blue enamel.
2. (J.H. Knapp, 1986) The incription on the box reads: Hongxian fang Qianlong yu shi liao you ping (Hung-hsien fang chi'en-lung yu chich liao yu p'ing). Hongxian imitation of Qianlong made material glazed vase.
Small characters designate the Huang family collection.
3. (J.H. Knapp, 1987) The poem, written in black, is translated by Lily Kecskes as follows:
Emerald and red sky, at its wish,
dances in the wind;
Gathering together, singing in harmony,
is joy in the thatched hut.
The red seals are: shih-ning and pi-lu
The oval red seal has not been found and could not be translated. Lily Kecskes has written all the characters in the folder sheet.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Whistler's Neighborhood
- Google Cultural Institute
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