Ming hongwu Flower grain pier 盌 youligong tangled branches

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• HKD 6080000
• USD 778240
• EUR 608000

the cocoon longquan mountain hall hongwu youligong, compared with Ming all kinds of porcelain, the deposit in the world. After the yuan dynasty extensive magnificent and vigorous style of porcelain manufacture, Ming, porcelain, the shape and decorative pattern is ready and creature type, have to follow. This 盌 hongwu youligong, typical pier, triangle flowers pattern circle four seasons branch flowers and plants, outside painting tangled branches of flowers, inside and outside the mouth along the back lines, neat subtlety. Card is in the shape of neat, style, delicate, the HongWuChao good example. By foreign trade limited Ming, imported cobalt blue material becomes increasingly rare, hence domestic copper red material as the alternatives to more widely application, it was also a feature of Ming porcelain. In accordance with the Liu Xinyuan, hongwu once, according to precedent, take its essence, to be more, red glaze or youligong porcelain in the dynasty has fired more, WeiCheng system, see the unearthed Ming guan kiln jingdezhen porcelain, hon jubilee art gallery, Taipei, 1996, pp. 52. But copper material jiao fire, positive color product there are rare. Qing zang youligong, decorative still see more uneven and splash, or due to improper kiln temperature, extensive hair color is black, such as old qing the broader market, as recorded in guang-yao wang and Jiang Jian new, the Ming dynasty yongle imperial kiln porcelain, jingdezhen imperial kiln site unearthed compared with the national Palace Museum Tibetan porcelain handed down from ancient times “, the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2015, no. 17. All this is impressively proved copper material in kiln showed the difficult of color.
this painted decorative pattern is very rare, especially pleasing to the eye, its inner wall painting respectively folding chrysanthemums, peony, camellia, and pomegranate flowers, his case has more than a single draw tangled branches of flowers, such as chrysanthemum or peony. 盌 similar with this rare cases, a visible, sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong on November 24, 1981, no. 132. Another similar 盌 example, heart painted folding chrysanthemums, belongs to the cf Lord hid, published in John Addis, , of hongwu 盌 example, refer to Beijing’s Palace Museum collection, 盌 wall painting put chrysanthemums lines, draw back to the lines, both internal and external mouth tallied, ring foot or jingdezhen blue and white 盌 royal plant site unearthed example, both apparatus in guang-yao wang and Jiang Jian new, said the source, no. 7-8. Sotheby’s has made similar youligong 盌 three cases, such as London sotheby’s March 13, 1973, no. 232, this case after twice sold at sotheby’s Hong Kong, November 29, 1977, respectively, number 27, and on April 30, 1991, no. 9 a. The second case is j. f. Bloxham and Stephen Winkworth old Tibet, sold twice, sotheby’s in London on April 26, 1933, respectively, no. 363, and two-thirds in December, 1974, no. 264, and in 1974, before the loan shows in the Victoria and Albert museum; The third case sold at sotheby’s ‘s Hong Kong on November 1, 1999, no. 308, and recorded in The last three male, complete works “world ceramics, vol 13: liao, jin, yuan, Tokyo, 1981, 82 color map. Another example, The expressions using along with volume grass grain replacement back to grain, for five lang old sakamoto, sotheby’s’ s sale in Hong Kong on October 8, 2014, no. 3505.