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THE COLLECTION OF EILEEN AND I.M. PEI
A YIXING CHESTNUT-FORM CUP AND A YIXING MODEL OF A CHESTNUT BY CHEN MINGYUAN
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Details
A YIXING CHESTNUT-FORM CUP AND A YIXING MODEL OF A CHESTNUT BY CHEN MINGYUAN
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The cluster of chestnuts are potted in various sizes, carved on one side with a couplet reading xi zuo shan zhong wu, jin wei xi shang zhen (it used to live in the hills, now it is a delicacy on the table), followed by a name He Cun, alias of Chen Mingyuan, and an impressed seal, yuan. The cluster includes a loose chestnut impresed with a seal reading He Cun.
Larger: 3 in. (7.6 cm.) long, cloth box
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The cluster of chestnuts are potted in various sizes, carved on one side with a couplet reading xi zuo shan zhong wu, jin wei xi shang zhen (it used to live in the hills, now it is a delicacy on the table), followed by a name He Cun, alias of Chen Mingyuan, and an impressed seal, yuan. The cluster includes a loose chestnut impresed with a seal reading He Cun.
Larger: 3 in. (7.6 cm.) long, cloth box
Provenance
New York, China House Gallery / China Institute in America, I-Hsing Ware, 28 October 1977 - 29 January 1978
Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 19 February - 21 May 1978
San Francisco, The Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 16 June – 21 September 1978
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loyalty and Dissent in Traditional Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 30 March - 9 September 1990
Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 19 February - 21 May 1978
San Francisco, The Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 16 June – 21 September 1978
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loyalty and Dissent in Traditional Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 30 March - 9 September 1990
Literature
Terese Tse Bartholomew, I-Hsing Ware, New York, 1977, p.74, no. 49
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