A RARE BLUE AND WHITE SLENDER CYLINDRICAL VASE Circa 1640
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY 女士藏品
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE SLENDER CYLINDRICAL VASE
Circa 1640
Vibrantly painted with a continuous scene of a cowherd kneeling before a high official, accompanied by attendants, one holding a canopy, one a tied bundle, and two with halberds, in a river landscape with pine, willow, rockwork and swirling clouds, the slender flaring neck with tulip flowers and leaves between pearls and lozenge. 44cm (17 3/8in) high
約1640年 青花人物故事圖筒瓶
Provenance: Worms family collection, Paris
S.Marchant and Son Ltd., London
Roy Davids Collection, no.99, acquired on 20 January 2010
Bonhams London, 5 November 2014, lot 110
A British private collection
Published and Illustrated: S.Marchant and Son Ltd., Ming Porcelain, London, 2009, p.116-177. no.52
來源：Worms家族收藏，巴黎
倫敦古董商S.Marchant and Son Ltd.
Roy Davids收藏，編號99，獲得於2010年1月20日
倫敦邦瀚斯，2014年11月5日，拍品編號110
英國私人收藏
著錄：S.Marchant and Son Ltd.，《Ming Porcelain》，倫敦，2009年，第116-117頁，編號52
There are various stories surrounding this common theme of a high mandarin and a cowherd. J.B.Curtis in her article 'Decorative Schemes for the New Markets: The Origins and Use of Narrative Themes on 17th Century Chinese Porcelain' in The International Ceramics Forum and Seminars Catalogue, London, 1997, describes the scene as the ancient sage Emperor Yao relinquishing his throne to minister Xu You who had become a recluse, herding oxen. A vase from the Butler Family Collection, with the same subject is illustrated by J.B.Curtis in Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century, Landscapes, Scholars' Motifs and Narratives, New York, 1995, no.60, pp.142-3.
Lu Minghua however, argues that the scene depicts a story from the History of the Han of Prime Minister Bing Ji enquiring about a buffalo which he noticed was breathing heavily in Spring, as if it was in the heat of Summer. Bing Ji believed it was the duty of Prime Ministers to balance the yin and yang of nature. See Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections, Shanghai, 2005, pp.110-1.
See a similar blue and white vase, Transitional period, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2011, lot 743.
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY 女士藏品
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE SLENDER CYLINDRICAL VASE
Circa 1640
Vibrantly painted with a continuous scene of a cowherd kneeling before a high official, accompanied by attendants, one holding a canopy, one a tied bundle, and two with halberds, in a river landscape with pine, willow, rockwork and swirling clouds, the slender flaring neck with tulip flowers and leaves between pearls and lozenge. 44cm (17 3/8in) high
約1640年 青花人物故事圖筒瓶
Provenance: Worms family collection, Paris
S.Marchant and Son Ltd., London
Roy Davids Collection, no.99, acquired on 20 January 2010
Bonhams London, 5 November 2014, lot 110
A British private collection
Published and Illustrated: S.Marchant and Son Ltd., Ming Porcelain, London, 2009, p.116-177. no.52
來源：Worms家族收藏，巴黎
倫敦古董商S.Marchant and Son Ltd.
Roy Davids收藏，編號99，獲得於2010年1月20日
倫敦邦瀚斯，2014年11月5日，拍品編號110
英國私人收藏
著錄：S.Marchant and Son Ltd.，《Ming Porcelain》，倫敦，2009年，第116-117頁，編號52
There are various stories surrounding this common theme of a high mandarin and a cowherd. J.B.Curtis in her article 'Decorative Schemes for the New Markets: The Origins and Use of Narrative Themes on 17th Century Chinese Porcelain' in The International Ceramics Forum and Seminars Catalogue, London, 1997, describes the scene as the ancient sage Emperor Yao relinquishing his throne to minister Xu You who had become a recluse, herding oxen. A vase from the Butler Family Collection, with the same subject is illustrated by J.B.Curtis in Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century, Landscapes, Scholars' Motifs and Narratives, New York, 1995, no.60, pp.142-3.
Lu Minghua however, argues that the scene depicts a story from the History of the Han of Prime Minister Bing Ji enquiring about a buffalo which he noticed was breathing heavily in Spring, as if it was in the heat of Summer. Bing Ji believed it was the duty of Prime Ministers to balance the yin and yang of nature. See Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections, Shanghai, 2005, pp.110-1.
See a similar blue and white vase, Transitional period, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2011, lot 743.
