Qing yongzheng bucket clouds bats lines (a) small cup

• RMB 2185000
• HKD 2463360
• USD 327750
• EUR 240350

[see] “palace treasures: the Chinese qing dynasty imperial porcelain” nanjing museum, Shanghai culture press, 2003, pp. 165.

yongzheng royal porcelain with fine quietly elegant is famous throughout the world. This to the bowl of light and beautiful, TaiZhi is exquisite, glaze ze bright and clean, shu lang uniform picture layout, colour quietly elegant mellow, shape proportion coordination, the beauty of the lines can be and is famous for its fine beautiful Ming yongle, chenghua porcelain. Wall white glaze wen run, the outer wall with blue and white hook side draw cloud bat design, green material, quietly elegant glaze on fill in red, green, orange, and yellow color. The grain and the shape of a small bowl of qing imperial kiln’s characteristic, see some color and blue and red color into two varieties, all the yongzheng official kilns extraordinary charm, is the collection of rare treasures, and only in pairs, more show precious. Nanjing museum hid yongzheng clouds as green-splashed bowls and this product modelling, pattern all the same, only slightly larger size.
“bat” and “fu” in Chinese, and has the meaning of longevity, “holding tastes” cloud: “chitose bats, color such as white, set the abuse, brain weight also. It was dry and shade at the end of the clothing it, make life, live for ever.” Bats hence become the most widely used in conventional controller of auspicious patterns. With red color painting, and homophonic most “monkey”. Throughout the development of China’s decoration, different aesthetic requirements, makes the fine arts and crafts decoration, rich form, form different style, but the same is the wish of auspicious ideas evolve into prosperity. Auspicious concept mainly includes: fortune to meet auspicious, evil evil, longevity and fertility, promoting to a higher position, festival happiness, etc. Especially in qing dynasty, this kind of phenomenon of decoration is more popular, the “figure will deliberately, meaning auspicious”, and this kind of idea to conform to the traditional Chinese aesthetics emphasizes the consciousness of “the perfect happiness”. The cloud bat to fight small cup is here, the red bat, xiangyun hangs, is trillion qian yun xiang sets, most monkey, wishful auspicious.
all bucket color porcelain in the Ming dynasty chenghua bucket color most people treasure, in the Ming dynasty had “the gold into a pair of glass kiln value”. One of the reasons is the prime color bucket must kiln twice, this increases the cost of fire, high damage rate and at the same time, so generally only official kilns at no cost to manufacture. From jingdezhen bead mountain in Ming dynasty unearthed kiln site can clearly understand that in the picture of broken at that time, kiln is very strict with porcelain, slightly wrong, ignition loss or the shape is not straight, color has been aborted.
bucket color with yongzheng, qianlong in the qing dynasty two generations of the most outstanding, and like to copy chenghua, but unique. In the Ming dynasty chenghua bucket color, blue color material in the early days is to use imported pigment, colour and lustre is strong deep dark spots; The equality of late with native Jiang Xirao state yaumcha county, this kind of quietly elegant blue and white color, transparency, very suitable for manufacturing of elegant small porcelain. And harmony, dry two generation of green material is produced in zhejiang province zhejiang, blue and white color distinct, rich shade color change. So in the art market, the three generations of bucket color clearer has been international antique collectors to collect.
this for items for the Chicago famous collectors James and Marilynn Alsdorf couple old Tibet. James and Marilynn Alsdorf couple is active in the 20th century, the collection of various kinds, quantity, Christie’s in New York in March 2011 for the auction. It is reported that since 1954, Alsdorf couple’s collection has grown to more than 700 donations and lend.