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Chinese Works of Art
Ceramics
Yixing Stoneware
Yixing Pottery from the Monterey Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Museum Funds; Acquired by the Museum in 1993
Lot 8103

A group of three Yixing pottery decorations

28 June 2016, 12:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$250 inc. premium

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A group of three Yixing pottery decorations

Including two similar water droppers rendered as a group of five snail shells, one in clay of darker hue bearing a maker's mark reading Dexin, the other of lighter hue marked Wen ji; and a brush rest potted as a naturalistically gnarled branch.
6 1/2in (16.5cm) length of third

Footnotes

宜興擺件三件

An early Qing dynasty waterpot prototype to the two snail-form water droppers in this lot was offered as lot 214 in the sale of Yixing Stoneware from the Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Hawthorn Collection, Bonhams Hong Kong sale 19621 28 November 2011. That lot was sealed Mingyuan, as are one of the branch-form brush rests similar to the third piece in this lot as featured in The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Yixing Zisha Stoneware [Beishan Jigu: Yixing Zisha] (Lai and Bartholomew, Hong Kong: 2015), catalog numbers 110-111 (pp. 302-305). Bartholomew notes that branch-form brush rests were 'one of the well-known trademarks of Chen Mingyuan,' and, she implies, the Shanghai-based potters of the 20th century whose similar works sometimes bore his seals.

Please note that this lot is being offered without reserve.
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