‘ECHO’
A pair of red enameled eggshell porcelain bowls

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LIVING WITH ARTJoy of appreciating art comes from correspondence. I hope that variousshapes of art objects can correspond and create a brand new space,which transcends time and boundaries.Lee Ufan, The Art of Blankness, Seoul, 2002.Correspondence in shape, correspondence in origins.Confronting objects coming from various regions, cultures andtraditions creates stimulating dialogues within the space. Continuinglast year’s success on Chinese contemporary design, Christie’sis delighted to reveal here thirty-five unique or very limited editionpieces produced in conjunction with local masters of their craft fromChina, Japan and Korea.Focusing on Asia, we have invited three internationally recognisedarchitects and designers to create their own interior inspired by theobjects offered in the Chinese and Asian Contemporary Designsale.Their impressive drawings reveal three very different eyes but equallygifted eyes: Jiang Qionger from China, Kengo Kuma from Japan andByoungsoo Cho from Korea.Géraldine LenainInternational Director, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art

‘ECHO’A pair of red enameled eggshell porcelain bowls

Shang Xia2015Master Lu Jiande (Jingdezhen, China) for theporcelain and Ding Yi (Shanghai, China) for thepainting

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‘ECHO’
A pair of red enameled eggshell porcelain bowls
Shang Xia
2015
Master Lu Jiande (Jingdezhen, China) for the
porcelain and Ding Yi (Shanghai, China) for the
painting
Each of elegant round shape and delicate as an eggshell, the white porcelain bowl has the ‘thinness of a butterfly’s wing and the weight of a cloud’. Both covered with red enamel pattern inspired by artist’s painting ‘Appearance of Crosses 2009-9’, one on the inside, the other on the outside; Shangxia mark, crafted by Shang Xia and Ding Yi, dated yi wei nian one on the base for one, in the interior for the other.
29 cm diam. (11 3/8 in.)
Porcelain and enamels.

Lot Essay

Ding Yi (b. 1962)
Appearance of Crosses
2009-9
Acrylic on tartan
1.5 x 1.5 m. (59 x 59 in.)
Contemporary Art Museum,
Chengdu

Ding Yi (b. 1962)
Appearance of Crosses
2000–4
signed Ding Yi, dated 2000
(lower right)
Acrylic on tartan
1.4 x 1.6 m (55 1/8 x 63 in.)
Christie’s Shanghai, 24 October
2014, lot 243

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