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RARO VASO DI FORMA “YEN YEN” IN PORCELLANA “FAMIGLIA VERDE”, CINA, DINASTIA QING, EPOCA KANGXI (1662-1722)
AN EXCEPTIONAL, BRILLIANTLY AND FINELY PAINTED PORCELAIN FAMILLE-VERTE LARGE VASE 'YEN YEN', CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
In a very exceptional good condition.
In a very exceptional good condition.
ESTIMATE € 20.000 - 28.000
cm 46 high
This outstanding vase, has a baluster body and high neck with flaring mouth rim, richly and finely painted in brilliant and powerful “Famille Verte” enamels, heightened with iron-red and gilding. Decorated with two main continuous scenes, divided on the shoulders by a large band with a scrolling diaper of swastikas, (the emblem of longevity), linked to one another, in a tinge of green on a background in black color, interspersed by four oval reserves with the signs characters 'Shou' written in ancient Chinese, two of which are gilded and two in a green shade. The neck painted with a scene probably taken from the 'Romance of the western chamber', with an attendant holding the horse bridle and looking at his landlord in front to his lover, offering her a golden tea-cup, behind her a maidservant carrying to her a tray with a golden teapot, and observing to the rear a servant beside a wheeled chair, all on a rocky landscape with plants, pines tree and in the distant big mountains, surrounded by a sky with clouds. The body of the vase with the scene of a gentleman standing on a terrace under a tree, looking forward down, his arm up pointing out with his index finger an equestrian armed soldier who is approaching him, followed by a warrior on a horseback and attendants that running close by, one bystander carrying and flagging a yellow flag, the dynamic setting accentuated with a jagged rockworks of a landscape with trees, bamboos, flying insects and shrubs, from some of the rocks come out two banners, each with one of the Eight Daoist Trigrams, 'bagua', the trigram li and tui,' all surrounded a cloudy sky and in the distance by mountains. The recessed base glaze in white with two under-glaze blue circles.
Note: it is very rare to find in the “Famille Verte” production a object, like the present vase, that is notable for his Height quality and lively brightly and strongly enamelling, with the numerous figures, animals, plants and the nature exquisitely detailed with delicate features.
Daoist Symbols: from YIN and YANG spring all else, a concept that the Chinese explain through the evolution of the Eight Trigrams 'Bagua'. Each Trigrams consists of three lines, broken or unbroken, and represents one of the eight different combinations that can be made of three broken or unbroken lines. The solid lines represent yang, the broken lines yin. Each of the eight trigrams has symbolic meaning and is associated with an animal, a direction and a natural force, progressing rationally from the three solid lines that represent heaven to the three broken lines that represent earth. Its earliest recorded usage dates back to the seventh century BCE.
'Li : middle daughter ; flames, lightning, fire, the sun ; brightness, elegance, clinging ; pheasant.
'Tui : youngest daughter ; quiet water bodies (deep lake, swamps, marshes) ; pleasure, satisfaction ; goat/sheep.
This outstanding vase, has a baluster body and high neck with flaring mouth rim, richly and finely painted in brilliant and powerful “Famille Verte” enamels, heightened with iron-red and gilding. Decorated with two main continuous scenes, divided on the shoulders by a large band with a scrolling diaper of swastikas, (the emblem of longevity), linked to one another, in a tinge of green on a background in black color, interspersed by four oval reserves with the signs characters 'Shou' written in ancient Chinese, two of which are gilded and two in a green shade. The neck painted with a scene probably taken from the 'Romance of the western chamber', with an attendant holding the horse bridle and looking at his landlord in front to his lover, offering her a golden tea-cup, behind her a maidservant carrying to her a tray with a golden teapot, and observing to the rear a servant beside a wheeled chair, all on a rocky landscape with plants, pines tree and in the distant big mountains, surrounded by a sky with clouds. The body of the vase with the scene of a gentleman standing on a terrace under a tree, looking forward down, his arm up pointing out with his index finger an equestrian armed soldier who is approaching him, followed by a warrior on a horseback and attendants that running close by, one bystander carrying and flagging a yellow flag, the dynamic setting accentuated with a jagged rockworks of a landscape with trees, bamboos, flying insects and shrubs, from some of the rocks come out two banners, each with one of the Eight Daoist Trigrams, 'bagua', the trigram li and tui,' all surrounded a cloudy sky and in the distance by mountains. The recessed base glaze in white with two under-glaze blue circles.
Note: it is very rare to find in the “Famille Verte” production a object, like the present vase, that is notable for his Height quality and lively brightly and strongly enamelling, with the numerous figures, animals, plants and the nature exquisitely detailed with delicate features.
Daoist Symbols: from YIN and YANG spring all else, a concept that the Chinese explain through the evolution of the Eight Trigrams 'Bagua'. Each Trigrams consists of three lines, broken or unbroken, and represents one of the eight different combinations that can be made of three broken or unbroken lines. The solid lines represent yang, the broken lines yin. Each of the eight trigrams has symbolic meaning and is associated with an animal, a direction and a natural force, progressing rationally from the three solid lines that represent heaven to the three broken lines that represent earth. Its earliest recorded usage dates back to the seventh century BCE.
'Li : middle daughter ; flames, lightning, fire, the sun ; brightness, elegance, clinging ; pheasant.
'Tui : youngest daughter ; quiet water bodies (deep lake, swamps, marshes) ; pleasure, satisfaction ; goat/sheep.
LOTS
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PORTAGIOIE DA VIAGGIO, IN LEGNO E BRONZO CON SGABELLO, CINA, QING DYNASTY, XIX SECOLO
PORTAGIOIE DA VIAGGIO, IN LEGNO E BRONZO CON SGABELLO, CINA, QING DYNASTY, XIX SECOLO
ESTIMATE € 800 - 1.200