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A rare coral-ground and gilt-decorated vase, meiping Gilt Shendetang mark, Late Qing Dynasty
4 June 2015, 10:30 HKT
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A rare coral-ground and gilt-decorated vase, meiping
Gilt Shendetang mark, Late Qing Dynasty
The narrow waisted neck and rounded shoulders tapering to a recessed base, covered with a bright iron-red ground lavishly gilt with eight stylised lotus flowers and formal lotus scrolls alternating in two ranks amid buds and suspended ruyi heads, musical stones and tassels, all between a ruyi border and lotus motifs at the neck and stylised petal panels, the base with a four-character kaishu mark.
16.2cm (6 3/8in) high
The narrow waisted neck and rounded shoulders tapering to a recessed base, covered with a bright iron-red ground lavishly gilt with eight stylised lotus flowers and formal lotus scrolls alternating in two ranks amid buds and suspended ruyi heads, musical stones and tassels, all between a ruyi border and lotus motifs at the neck and stylised petal panels, the base with a four-character kaishu mark.
16.2cm (6 3/8in) high
Footnotes
清晚期 珊瑚紅地描金纏枝蓮紋梅瓶 描金「慎德堂製」楷書款
Provenance 來源: Sotheby's London, 15 December 1987, lot 172 (one of a pair)
Georg Weishaupt (1906-2004)
Nagel, the Weishaupt Collection, 21 May 2004, lot 844
倫敦蘇富比，1987年12月15日，拍品172號其一
Georg Weishaupt(1906-2004)舊藏
德國納高，Weishaupt收藏，2004年5月21日，拍品844
The pair to the present vase, published by R.Krahl and C.Von Spee, Chinese Ceramics from the Gulexuan Collection, Lünen, 2003, no.141, was sold in our London rooms, 6 November 2014, lot 197.
The Shendetang, or Hall of Prudent Virtue, has been identified as a Hall at the western end of the Jiuzhouqingyan Palace, or Palace of Peace in the Nine Regions, within the Yuanmingyuan grounds, and which was completed in 1831: see M.Wilson, Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics, London, 1998, p.36. Geng Baochang in Ming Qing ciqi jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, pp.385-386, records the mark on 34 different types of Daoguang-period vessels, including a red-glazed and gilt bowl, but on only one Guangxu vessel.
Amongst the Shendetang group of wares, the present lot is very unusual. The style of the gilding on the bright red ground suggests that it is a rare example from the Guangxu rather than the Daoguang period, and furthermore it has a gilt rather than an iron-red mark: in the late Qing dynasty text Taoya (Refinements of Pottery), vol.II, p.1, such a gilt mark is noted as being 'occasional'.
Compare a jardinière attributed to the Guangxu period with a related gilt flower design and similar lappet border on a bright red ground illustrated in Chūgoku tōji zenshū (Complete series on Chinese Ceramics), vol.21, Kyoto, 1981, pl.151.
此器本為一對，另一件曾出版在R.Krahl and C.Von Spee著，《Chinese Ceramics from the Gulexuan Collection》，呂嫩，2003年，編號141，後來售於倫敦邦瀚斯，2014年11月6日，拍品197。
慎德堂為圓明園內的一組建築，位於九州清晏的西面，於道光十一年（1831年）落成，請詳閱M.Wilson著，《Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics》，倫敦，1998年，頁36。耿寶昌先生曾記錄過三十四種「慎德堂製」款，大部份繪在道光瓷器上，當中也包括一件光緒時期紅釉描金碗，見《明清瓷器鑒定》，香港，1993年，頁385至386。
《陶雅》記載：「慎德堂瓷器皆抹紅楷款，亦有金款者。」從目前傳世品中慎德堂瓷器大部份為紅彩款，描金款非常少見，且此瓶上的描金裝飾更具光緒風格，可見此瓶之罕有。
參考一件光緒時期紅地描金花卉紋花盆，見《Chūgoku tōji zenshū》，第21冊，1981年，圖版151。