REPUBLIC PERIOD, WUCHEN CYCLICAL YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1928 AND OF THE PERIOD

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A FAMILLE ROSE LANDSCAPE BRUSHPOT
REPUBLIC PERIOD, WUCHEN CYCLICAL YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1928 AND OF THE PERIOD
The brushpot of square section with canted corners, one panel of the exterior enamelled with a lone pavilion in a river landscape scene signed with a short poetic inscription by the artist, Wang Yeting, and with two iron-red seals of the artist, the reverse side by the same artist similarly decorated with a scholar in a pavilion built on the edge of a river with a pagoda perched high on the mountain top in the distance, the remaining two sides painted by the artist Wang Qi, one scene depicting two fishermen confronting each other engaged in conversation, seated on a verdant ground, the corresponding panel with a scholar playing the qin seated in front of a wutong tree whilst his attendent is hunched asleep as this side, the base with an iron-red sealmark, Taotao Zhai', 'Studio of Contentment'
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high, stand

Provenance

The Hon. Andrew Li Kwok Nang, acquired from a Hong Kong private collector in the early 1980s

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The two artists, Wang Qi (1884-1937) and Wang Yeting (1884-1942) were both considered the 'Eight Friends of Zhushan, the former being the most outstanding, and influential, among this group of masters. In 1922, Wang Qi became the vice-president of the Ciyue Meishu Yanjiushe, 'Porcelain Painting Research Institute'; and founded the Yue Yuan Hui, 'The Full Moon Society' in 1928 which sets the foundation for the promotion of ceramic art for the Eight Friends of Zhushan and its followers. Wang Qi specialised in the area of painting figures in landscape; for two vases bearing his studio name, Taotao Zhai, cf. Chinese Porcelain of the Republic Period, The Muwen Tang Collection Series, 6, 2008, pp. 114-117, nos. 28 (dated 1933) and 29 (1927). Wang Yeting, on the other hand, is renowned for his landscape paintings, particularly in the style of the four great landscape painters of the Qing dynasty known as the 'Four Wangs': Wang Shimin (1642-1715), Wang Hui (1632-1717), Wang Jian (1598-1677) and Wang Yuanqi (1642-1715). For examples of Wang Yueting's work see, ibid., pp. 124-145, nos. 33-43.

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