拍品專文
Two comparable vases with battle scenes on the main register and landscape around the neck are illustrated by Mino and Robinson in Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983, p. 338, fig. 14. The present vase, however, is remarkable for its quality of painting
The scene illustrated on this vase is most probably Sanguozhi Yanyi (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms). The novel is set during the collapse of the Eastern Han dynasty when China splintered into Three Kingdoms. It recounts the efforts of Liu Bei, a member of the Han imperial house to reunite the country. Liu Bei formed an alliance with Guan Yu (later deified as Guandi, the Daoist god of war) and Zhang Fei, a commoner who had earned his living as a butcher and is often depicted with a black face, and together they fought against Cao Cao, the dictator of Wei who seized control of north China
For further reading on the subject, refer to the article by David T. Johnson, "Narrative Themes on Kangxi Porcelains in the Taft Museum", Orientations, August, 1993, pp. 31-36
The scene illustrated on this vase is most probably Sanguozhi Yanyi (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms). The novel is set during the collapse of the Eastern Han dynasty when China splintered into Three Kingdoms. It recounts the efforts of Liu Bei, a member of the Han imperial house to reunite the country. Liu Bei formed an alliance with Guan Yu (later deified as Guandi, the Daoist god of war) and Zhang Fei, a commoner who had earned his living as a butcher and is often depicted with a black face, and together they fought against Cao Cao, the dictator of Wei who seized control of north China
For further reading on the subject, refer to the article by David T. Johnson, "Narrative Themes on Kangxi Porcelains in the Taft Museum", Orientations, August, 1993, pp. 31-36