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PROPERTY FROM THE ALAN AND SIMONE HARTMAN COLLECTION
Lot 46¤
A RARE EARLY SIGNED, DOCUMENTARY FAMILLE ROSE SEMI-EGGSHELL TEA BOWL AND SAUCER Yongzheng period, 1723-35, saucer with puce seal reading Yu Feng Yang Lin (Yang Lin of Yufeng); teabowl with puce seal reading You Zhai (Secluded Studio)
15 September 2025, 09:00 EDT
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A RARE EARLY SIGNED, DOCUMENTARY FAMILLE ROSE SEMI-EGGSHELL TEA BOWL AND SAUCER
Yongzheng period, 1723-35, saucer with puce seal reading Yu Feng Yang Lin (Yang Lin of Yufeng); teabowl with puce seal reading You Zhai (Secluded Studio)
The semi-eggshell porcelain delicately painted in vibrant pastel shades to the well of the saucer with three plain-ground circular panels with chrysanthemum and daisy to one, peony with mallow or hollyhock to the second, and peony and day-lily to the other, each floating on a multiple diaper-cell ground of primarily turquoise, orange and pink tones below a blue enamel band and a gilt edge at the rim, the reverse plain and the base centered by a large puce-enamel round-cornered four-character square seal reading Yu Feng Yang Lin; the tea bowl painted similarly to the saucer on the exterior and with an addition of an orchid flowerhead to the center below three oval panels with a flowerhead and scrolls, set on a pink cell-ground band at the rim interior, the base with a puce-enamel round-cornered two-character square seal reading You Zhai.
Saucer: 4 9/16in (14.5cm) diam; teabowl: 2 9/16in (6.6cm) diam
(2).
The semi-eggshell porcelain delicately painted in vibrant pastel shades to the well of the saucer with three plain-ground circular panels with chrysanthemum and daisy to one, peony with mallow or hollyhock to the second, and peony and day-lily to the other, each floating on a multiple diaper-cell ground of primarily turquoise, orange and pink tones below a blue enamel band and a gilt edge at the rim, the reverse plain and the base centered by a large puce-enamel round-cornered four-character square seal reading Yu Feng Yang Lin; the tea bowl painted similarly to the saucer on the exterior and with an addition of an orchid flowerhead to the center below three oval panels with a flowerhead and scrolls, set on a pink cell-ground band at the rim interior, the base with a puce-enamel round-cornered two-character square seal reading You Zhai.
Saucer: 4 9/16in (14.5cm) diam; teabowl: 2 9/16in (6.6cm) diam
(2).
Footnotes
清雍正 1723-35年《幽齋》《玉峰楊琳》紅款 粉彩錦地花卉紋小杯碟一套
Provenance:
The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection
來源：
艾倫與西蒙·哈特曼伉儷珍藏
A near-identically decorated tea bowl and saucer with the same seal marks entered the British Museum Collection in 1890 (coll. no. Franks 692). They were donated by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, and the British Museum website also notes an acquisition name as a donation from Hon. Robert Meade.
See R.L. Hobson, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Vol. II, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain, New York and London, 1915, pp. 212-213, pl. 119, fig 2 for a lengthy discussion of the British Museum tea bowl and saucer and the seal Yu Feng Yang Lin. The author identifies Yufeng mentioned on the saucer as the present-day city of Kunshan between Suzhou and Shanghai in Jiangsu Province and surmises that Yang Lin was either a native of Kunshan or that he resided there, more likely the former, given that his work is typical of the Canton enamellers. He continues however, that it is probable enough that there were decorating establishments working for the European markets in the neighborhood of Shanghai as well as at Canton. He further suggests that the You Zhai mark on the cup is the studio name of Yang Lin.
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價。