REPUBLIC PERIOD (1911-1949)

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A FINE FAMILLE ROSE CYLINDRICAL VASE
REPUBLIC PERIOD (1911-1949)
The vase is finely decorated on one side with a lady dressed in long flowing robes, a winter overcoat and a fur stole, who carries a flowering prunus branch, and is inscribed with a couplet jiangnan wu suo you, liao zeng yi zhi chun, and an apocryphal signature of Giuseppe Castiglione.
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) high

Exhibited

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Collectors Odyssey: Treasures from the Collections of Members of the Society of Asian Art of Hawai'i, 15 May - 3 August 2003.

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Lot Essay

The couplet is taken from A Poem for Fan Ye by the Liu Song dynasty (420-479) poet, Lu Kai, written to his friend Fan Ye (398-445), who was a historian that compiled the historical text Hou Hanshu (Book of the Later Han). The couplet may be translated as: 'There is nothing (special) in the Jiangnan region, therefore I could only send you a branch of prunus blossom.'

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