Lot 2821
2821
A YIXING BAMBOO SHOOT-FORM WATER POT BY CHEN MINGYUAN
A YIXING BAMBOO SHOOT-FORM WATER POT BY CHEN MINGYUAN
A YIXING BAMBOO SHOOT-FORM WATER POT BY CHEN MINGYUAN
A YIXING BAMBOO SHOOT-FORM WATER POT BY CHEN MINGYUAN
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THE COLLECTION OF EILEEN AND I.M. PEI
A YIXING BAMBOO SHOOT-FORM WATER POT BY CHEN MINGYUAN

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A YIXING BAMBOO SHOOT-FORM WATER POT BY CHEN MINGYUAN
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Potted in the form of a bamboo shoot, the waterpot is raised on three mushroom-form feet with the base impressed with an artist's seal, Chen Mingyuan zhi (made by Chen Mingyuan).
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) long, cloth box
Literature
The Shanghai Museum and the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Themes and Variation: The Zisha Pottery of Chen Mingyuan, Hong Kong, 1997, p. 164, fig. 5
Exhibited
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loyalty and Dissent in Traditional Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 30 March - 9 September 1990

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Lot Essay

See a similar Yixing bamboo shoot-form water dropper impressed with a Chen Mingyuan seal from the Chen Keli (1908- after 1985) Collection, illustrated by Chen Keli in Yangxian shaqi jingpin tupu (An Illustrated Catalogue of Yangxian Stonewares), Taipei, 1985, pl. 33; in Themes and Variations: The Zisha Pottery of Chen Mingyuan, Shanghai Museum & the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997, p. 165, fig. 7; and in Ming er yuan xi: Chen Mingyuan taoyi yanjiu, Beijing, 2016. This was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2018, lot 2933.

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