Bonhams 1793 : An Yixing stoneware water vessel Qing dynasty, signed Chen Mingyuan

Qing dynasty, signed Chen Mingyuan
Of archaistic gui form, the compressed globular body supported on a raised splayed foot, applied with a pair of ring handles issuing from ferocious monster masks, the main body applied with four horizontal raised bands, the base incised with two-character kaishu mark, the stoneware of an attractive purple-brown with attractive light flecks.
12.1cm wide.

Sold for HK$ 500,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

For further information about Chen Mingyuan, see lot 547.

For a closely related Chen Mingyuan-marked vessel of gui form, see the example illustrated by Terese Tse Bartholomer, I-Hsing Ware, China Institute in America, p.52, pl.28 (fig.1). This vessel, lent by Alice Boney, differs from the current example, impressed with a three-character zhuanshu seal within a square.

清紫砂摻砂簋

「鳴遠」楷書款

此器方形圓角，斂口，圈足，仿青銅雙獸耳，造形莊嚴，腹飾以平行瓦梭紋，每一瓦梭紋皆微微向上揚，層層遞增，工藝精密細緻，底刻「鳴遠」楷書款。泥色紫褐色，中慘有點點砂土，泥質堅挺潤澤，表達出仿青銅之意，古樸規整。

有關陳鳴遠之簡介，請參考拍品編號547。

據《I-hsing Ware》一書，Alice Boney藏一件陳鳴遠仿古簋與本簋十分相似，尤其微微向上揚的瓦梭紋，非一般工匠可能及，見《I-hsing Ware》, China Institute in America, 1977, 頁52。(fig.1)