Lot 46: A FAMILLE-ROSE RUBY-GROUND 'BIRD AND FLOWER' BOWL 18th or 19th century, possibly Samson

A FAMILLE-ROSE RUBY-GROUND 'BIRD AND FLOWER' BOWL

18th or 19th century, possibly Samson

Elegantly and thinly potted with deep rounded sides above a slightly tapering foot, the exterior brilliantly enameled with handscroll-form panels each enclosing a colorful feathered bird on the branch of a peony spray, all reserved on a ruby-red ground with gnarled branches of blossoming prunus extending from under each end of the scroll paintings, the white interior covered with a clear glaze and centered by a loose leafy peony spray and bud.


3in (7.6cm) high; 7 3/4in. (19.7cm) diam

Generally, in excellent overall condition, save for a small rim nibble (0.2cm). A few minor air-bubble pinpricks but unobtrusive. Under a strong light there is an outline around the edges of the design underneath the ruby glaze. This is either an original drawing guideline or possibly just a halo from the outline. Highly recommended.

十八或十九世紀 或為 Samson 製 粉彩開光花鳥圖軸紋碗



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源：

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約

會費購藏，1879 年

大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今



The handscroll motif on the present bowl derives from Yongzheng period precedents. See, for example, a Yongzheng period famille-rose jar and cover decorated with various shaped panels including scroll paintings, illustrated in J. Ayers,
Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. I, London, 2016, p.311, no.710. Another Yongzheng period vase decorated with variously shaped panels, including scrolls, is illustrated in A. du Boulay,
The Taft Museum: Its History and Collections, Vol. II, New York, 1995, p.678, no.1931.183.



For two ruby-backed saucer dishes from the Yongzheng period, one in the Percival David Foundation, London, the other in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, both painted with a similar, colorfully feathered, stocky bird on a magnolia branch near leafy peony sprays, see Soame Jenyns,
Later Chinese Porcelain, pl.LII, no.1, for the first, and Suzanne G. Valenstein,
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975, p.216, no.152 for the second, that interestingly also has an Avery provenance (accession. no. 79.2.693).

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