20TH CENTURY, GUSONGZHAI ZHI IRON-RED SEAL MARKS, ARTISTS SEAL OF WANG DAFANG

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE FIGURAL VASES
20TH CENTURY, GUSONGZHAI ZHI IRON-RED SEAL MARKS, ARTISTS SEAL OF WANG DAFANG
Painted with two beautiful ladies filling vases from a water urn surrounded by bouquets of flowers and auspicious crane and bat motifs, artists seal 'Kun' in iron-red to body
14in. (35.5cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Peter Wain, Heavenly Pieces, An Exhibition of Chinese Porcelain of the Early 20th Century, Shropshire, England, May 1993, pp. 22, no.24.

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Lot Essay

Wang Dafan (1888-1961)
An independent painter of the 1930s who excelled in figures. A second generation of the literati school of porcelain painting and a pupil of Wang Xiaotang. One of the 'Eight friends of Zhushan' from 1928, the name given by the people of Jingdezhen to a group of eight porcelain painters who met once a month at the time of the full moon to discuss, amongst other things, ideas for designs.

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