Skulptur, biskviporslin. Qingdynastin, 1800-tal.
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Fint skulpterad med små detaljer, fartyget är gjort i form av en drakbåt, med två våningar. På däck och i pagodan finns skulpterade figurer föreställande de daoistiska odödliga. Runt om sidorna roddare, draken har löst tillverkad tunga och ögon. Längd 25 cm. Höjd 18,5 cm.
Nagg, dekorbortfall, lagningar.
Proveniens
Property of a private Swedish family collection, gathered from the 1940’s and to the present day. The two generations of collectors have shared a common interest in Chinese Works of Art, numerous has their visits been to Museums, Auction Houses and Antique Fairs around the world.
Purchased by the present owners father in Hong Kong in 1977.
Utställningar
Compare a dragon boat sold at Sothebys, New York, 1994, Novermber 28-29. lot no 385.
Compare also a boat sold at Christies, lot 1547. 29 May 2007, Live auction, 2369. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Compare a dragon boat sold at Bonhams, 8318. Fine Asian Works of Art, 20 December 2011.
Litteratur
Chen Guozhi can often be identified as the sculptor of these works. He
was a well-known ceramic carver, particularly those of biscuit porcelain wares, who was active during the late Daoguang period. An example of a biscuit brushpot illustrated by S. Kwan, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, p. 18, fig. 4; and a turquoise enamelled brushpot bearing the unusual mark of Daqing Daoguang Chen Guozhi zao, 'Made in the Daoguang period of the Great Qing dynasty by Chen Guozhi', in the Baur Collection is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 2000, p. 236, no. 340 (A658).