CHINE, EPOQUE CONTEMPORAINE, SIGNES JIANG RONG

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DEUX PETITS COMPTE-GOUTTES EN FORME DE NEFLES ET DE MANGUE EN GRES YIXING
CHINE, EPOQUE CONTEMPORAINE, SIGNES JIANG RONG
La première est modelée de façon très réaliste en forme de mangue et l'autre en forme de trois nèfles sur leur branche noueuse, chacun porte une marque en cachet.
Longueur du plus grand: 9,8 cm. (3 7/8 in.)

Provenance

A Distinguished Asian Family Collection.
Bonhams Hong Kong, Yixing Stoneware and Scholar's Objects from Private Collections, 27 May 2012, lot 637.

Literature

H. Chien, Purple Clay: Wellington Wang's Collection of Yixing Wares, Taipei, 1993, pp. 218-19.

Further details

AN YIXING STONEWARE 'LOQUAT' AND A 'MANGO' WATER DROPPER
CHINA, SIGNED JIANG RONG, CONTEMPORARY

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Lot Essay

Jiang Rong (1919-2008) was a prominent contemporary Yixing artist and was awarded the title of "China Arts and Crafts Master.” In 1956, the Jiangsu provincial government named her as the Jishu Fudao, or “technician teacher”, for Yixing pottery, which was regarded as the highest honour in the arts and crafts industry in China at the time. She worked in the naturalistic tradition and was the only woman among the 'Six Old Masters' chosen to teach in the main factory when Yixing ware was revived in the 1950s.

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