拍品專文
The Fonthill Heirlooms Collection was put together by Alfred Morrison during the Nineteenth Century. It included a large quantity of porcelain purchased from Lord Loch of Drylaw brought back from Beijing after the sacking of the Yuanmingyuan in 1860.
It is rare to find porcelain vases of this type, a design more commonly found in jade vases, where dragons and other animals frequently climb around the shoulder and neck. Examples with dragons and similar clouds from the Palace Museum, Beijing, are illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanggi, Jade, p.162, col.pl.240 and p.161, col.pl.239
A related turquoise-ground vase applied with polychrome chilong, from the Palace Museum, Peking, is illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol.21, pl.120. Another was sold in London, 14 December 1982, lot 245 and in New York, 1 June 1994, lot 427
It is rare to find porcelain vases of this type, a design more commonly found in jade vases, where dragons and other animals frequently climb around the shoulder and neck. Examples with dragons and similar clouds from the Palace Museum, Beijing, are illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanggi, Jade, p.162, col.pl.240 and p.161, col.pl.239
A related turquoise-ground vase applied with polychrome chilong, from the Palace Museum, Peking, is illustrated in Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol.21, pl.120. Another was sold in London, 14 December 1982, lot 245 and in New York, 1 June 1994, lot 427