CHINA / 5000 YEARS
CHINA / 5000 YEARS
Property from an English private collection 英國私人收藏
Auction Closed
November 30, 09:40 AM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an English private collection 英國私人收藏
A blue and white sleeve vase,
Ming dynasty, Chongzhen period
明崇禎 青花折桂圖筒瓶
43.7 cm
The scene on the present vase recalls the allusion of zhegui (‘to pluck an osmanthus branch’), which represents success in the imperial examinations and signifies an official's blossoming career. The phrase comes from a legend that a great osmanthus tree grows in the Lunar Palace. Branches of the tree are thought to rarely fall to Earth and grant good luck to whosoever found them. Furthermore, the imperial exam results were announced on the eighth lunar month, which coincided with the blooming season of the osmanthus.
See a related sleeve vase, formerly in the collection of Robert Murray Bell, now in the collection of Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (object no. 998.110.1), illustrated on https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/326756/jingdezhen-ware-vase;jsessionid=C1E6C344C91B8252ACB778914DD08547.
參考一相類筒瓶,原屬 Robert Murray Bell 收藏,現貯於多倫多皇家安大略博物館(館藏編號:998.110.1),圖載於https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/326756/jingdezhen-ware-vase;jsessionid=C1E6C344C91B8252ACB778914DD08547。