A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'WENWU SHUANGQUAN' GU-SHAPED VASES

A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'WENWU SHUANGQUAN' GU-SHAPED VASES
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD C.1640

Each decorated with two continuous narrative scenes separated by anhua bands above a border of plantain leaves, one painted with a scene of a lady greeting a military official on a riverbank surrounded by craggy rocks, while his groom and servants bearing banners wait beneath a nearby willow tree, the lower section with a seated scholar and his attendant at leisure; the other vase depicts a scene of a scholar offering an osmanthus spray to two kneeling figures, above a scene of two boys at play in a garden, 40.2cm and 41.5cm. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of the 9th Marquis of Waterford, Henry Nicholas de la Poer (b.1958) of Curraghmore, County Waterford.

Cf. Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, an exhibition presented by the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong and the Urban Council, Hong Kong, no.79 and 82, for two brushpots illustrating closely related scenes to the former vase; see also Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30th November 2021, lot 404, for a related sleeve vase depicting a similar scene to the latter vase.

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來源：愛爾蘭沃特福德克拉莫爾第九代沃特福德侯爵Henry Nicholas de la Poer (1958年生) 的收藏。