拍品專文
The five-character stanza in praise of lotus flowers can be translated:
Fragrant winds passing through a creek;
lotus standing in still, mirror-like, water.
A moment's repose to enjoying such qualities;
not even a painting can depict its beauty and purity.
A brocade covering a lotus pond;
like an immortal paradise.
Compare with a smaller pair of wall vases, also with integral imitation lacquer wood stands and poetic panels on a sgraffiato yellow ground, included in The Imperial Sale, sold in these Rooms, 27 April 1997, lot 32.
Another inscribed wall vase reserved on a pale blue ground with an imperial poem dated 1742 and in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated by Rosemary Scott, For the Imperial Court, fig. 3 and again by Beurdeley and Rainder Qing Porcelain, fig. 161, the authors note that the previous owner, Guo Baochang, told Sir Percival David that at the Emperor's order, the vase was made by Tang Ying himself. Cf. also a pale celadon and gilt-decorated inscribed wall vase, the imperial poem dated 1765, illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, no. 116.
(US$30,000-40,000)
Fragrant winds passing through a creek;
lotus standing in still, mirror-like, water.
A moment's repose to enjoying such qualities;
not even a painting can depict its beauty and purity.
A brocade covering a lotus pond;
like an immortal paradise.
Compare with a smaller pair of wall vases, also with integral imitation lacquer wood stands and poetic panels on a sgraffiato yellow ground, included in The Imperial Sale, sold in these Rooms, 27 April 1997, lot 32.
Another inscribed wall vase reserved on a pale blue ground with an imperial poem dated 1742 and in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated by Rosemary Scott, For the Imperial Court, fig. 3 and again by Beurdeley and Rainder Qing Porcelain, fig. 161, the authors note that the previous owner, Guo Baochang, told Sir Percival David that at the Emperor's order, the vase was made by Tang Ying himself. Cf. also a pale celadon and gilt-decorated inscribed wall vase, the imperial poem dated 1765, illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, no. 116.
(US$30,000-40,000)