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Lot Essay
The couplet can be translated as:
As the spring breeze bushes past the jade-like blossoms, the clear morning arrives;
The night moon skips on the waves to pass beyond the great causeway.
There appears to be some debate on whether the narcissus depicts the eleventh or twelfth lunar month. Similar examples in the Percival David Foundation, housed at the British Museum, and the Hong Kong Museum of Art are both designated as the eleventh month, respectively illustrated by R. E. Scott, 'Fine Porcelain and Delicate Brushwork', Orientations, November 1986, figs. 2-2b; and the other included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Qing Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 15.
Compare a very similar example formerly in the Paul and Helen Bernat and Jingguantang Collections, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 583; a pair sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 1996, lot 753; and another one at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 2002, lot 623.
As the spring breeze bushes past the jade-like blossoms, the clear morning arrives;
The night moon skips on the waves to pass beyond the great causeway.
There appears to be some debate on whether the narcissus depicts the eleventh or twelfth lunar month. Similar examples in the Percival David Foundation, housed at the British Museum, and the Hong Kong Museum of Art are both designated as the eleventh month, respectively illustrated by R. E. Scott, 'Fine Porcelain and Delicate Brushwork', Orientations, November 1986, figs. 2-2b; and the other included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Qing Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 15.
Compare a very similar example formerly in the Paul and Helen Bernat and Jingguantang Collections, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 583; a pair sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 1996, lot 753; and another one at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 2002, lot 623.