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A pair of blue and white 'pine tree' dishes Guangxu six-character mark and of the period
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A pair of blue and white 'pine tree' dishes
Guangxu six-character mark and of the period
each of the underside decorated with four bats, with a fitted box, 14.8cm diam. (2).
each of the underside decorated with four bats, with a fitted box, 14.8cm diam. (2).
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dr Cheng Te-k'un (1907-2001), Cambridge
Bluett, London, 5 Dec 1996 (label and invoice)
Published:
H. A. van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1977, p.54, pl.68
清光緒 青花松紋對盤 「大清光緒年製」青花楷書款 及盒
傳承：
劍橋鄭德坤博士（1908-2001）
倫敦 Bluett，1996年12月5日（標簽及賬單）
錄著：
H. A. van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1977年，頁54，圖版68號
Dr Cheng Te-k'un, archaeologist, was Curator of the West China University Museum at Chengdu in Sichuan. He left China in 1951 and in due course built up the Mu-fei Library at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he was Lecturer in Far Eastern Art and Archaeology, 1951-66; Reader in Chinese Archaeology, 1966-74. Invited to serve as Visiting Professor of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1974, and later became Dean of Arts, and Pro-Vice Chancellor. In 1978 he founded, and was Director of, the Centre for Chinese Archaeology and Art, CUHK.
鄭德坤（1907~2001），考古學家。 1907年5月6日出生於鼓浪嶼，畢業於燕京大學，哈佛大學考古學博士。先後執教於廈門大學、華西協和大學、劍橋大學、香港中文大學。1938年鄭德坤來到美國哈佛大學攻讀考古學及博物館管理，1941年取得博士學位。返回華西協和教學兼博物館館長。 1947年赴英倫在劍橋、牛津和倫敦三所大學輪流講學一年。 1948年路經香港，本打算入川，因當時國內政局動盪而未能成行。 1951年受邀再次來到劍橋大學任教，直至退休。鄭德坤在劍橋大學任教期間，所創立獨立於劍橋的「木扉」圖書館，是世界各地學者研究中國考古學參考資料的寶庫。1978年於中大的中國文化研究所創"中國考古藝術研究中心"，並擔任首屆主任。