A VERY FINELY PAINTED UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND COPPER-RED-DECORATED BALUSTER JAR

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

細節

A VERY FINELY PAINTED UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND COPPER-RED-DECORATED BALUSTER JAR
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Decorated with two pine trees growing amidst rocks and bamboo, with a pair of deer beneath each tree, on one side the doe has her head lowered as the buck looks up at a crane in flight near its mate perched in one of the branches, on the reverse the doe is grazing while the buck stands on the bank of a rushing river as it watches a pair of cranes in flight above, the waisted neck with detached clouds below a ruyi-head border encircling the upright rim, the deer, pine trunks and branches picked out in copper red
14 in. (35.4 cm.) high

來源

Dutch private collection.
S. Marchant & Son, London.

拍品專文

The decoration on the present jar is very rare, although a Yongzheng-marked example in blue and white with underglaze red decoration, comparably painted with a design of pine, bamboo and plum blossoms, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 36 - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 210-1, no. 192. A yenyen vase dated to the Kangxi period with similar decoration is illustrated by P. F. Ferguson, Cobalt Treasures - The Robert Murray Bell and Ann Walker Bell Collection of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, Gardiner Museeum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, 2003, p. 62, no. 66.