HONGXIAN YUZHI BLUE ENAMEL MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES, REPUBLIC PERIOD

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A GRISAILLE-DECORATED 'LANDSCAPE' VASE
HONGXIAN YUZHI BLUE ENAMEL MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES, REPUBLIC PERIOD
The vase is well potted with an oviform body beneath a short waisted neck with an everted rim. It is delicately painted around the body in sepia and pale iron-red tones with a continuous mountainous landscape, detailed with figures and dwellings amidst tall trees, rocky mountains, river and hills in the far distance.
8 in. (20.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Taji Shuichi Collection

Literature

Taji Shuichi, Porcelain of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 160

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Lot Essay

Compare to an ovoid vase of similar size, also painted in sepia with a continuous landscape and bearing a Hongxian iron-red four-character mark, inscribed with the seal mark of Wang Dachang, from the Muwen Tang Collection and illustrated in Chinese Porcelain of the Republic Period, Hong Kong, 2008, pl. 108.

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