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拍品專文
George Hathaway Taber Jr. (1859-1940) was a prolific collector of Chinese ceramics and jades with a discerning eye. He was the son of Capt. George H. Taber (1808-1901), who rose from a humble background to become a prominent member of the community and held a number of important official positions including serving as President of Fairhaven Bank. The younger Taber made his mark as an oil executive and ultimately as a board member with the Gulf Oil Company. A self-taught engineer, he was instrumental in developing important advances in the oil-refining technique. Believed to have been influenced by a relative who had brought back tales and beautiful objects from his travels in China, George Hathaway Taber, Jr. built up an extraordinary collection, which was loaned or gifted to a number of museums, including the Philbrook Museum, to form the core of the Chinese collection. Upon his death in 1940, the collection was split up between his descendants, and part of it was sold at the Park Bernet Galleries, New York, 7-8 March 1946.
Compare with incense garnitures produced in a variety of materials in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, 1994, and illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 82 and 89 (porcelain imitating early bronzes), nos. 84 and 85 (white jade), no. 86 (champlevé enamel), no. 87 (molded celadon porcelain), and no. 88 (enamel on metal).
The ritual of incense burning served not only a spiritual element, but it facilitated other more practical purposes, such as the fumigation of clothes. Each of these vessels was used for a specific purpose: the box and cover for storage of incense, either in strip, coil or pellet form, whilst the tool vase accommodated implements such as chopsticks and a spatula to rake or smooth the bed of ashes placed in the censer.
Compare, also, with two jade garnitures sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 October 2000, lot 657 (celadon jade) and lot 658 (white jade).
Compare with incense garnitures produced in a variety of materials in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, 1994, and illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 82 and 89 (porcelain imitating early bronzes), nos. 84 and 85 (white jade), no. 86 (champlevé enamel), no. 87 (molded celadon porcelain), and no. 88 (enamel on metal).
The ritual of incense burning served not only a spiritual element, but it facilitated other more practical purposes, such as the fumigation of clothes. Each of these vessels was used for a specific purpose: the box and cover for storage of incense, either in strip, coil or pellet form, whilst the tool vase accommodated implements such as chopsticks and a spatula to rake or smooth the bed of ashes placed in the censer.
Compare, also, with two jade garnitures sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 October 2000, lot 657 (celadon jade) and lot 658 (white jade).