The Central Spring Auction in Tokyo also featured several pieces of important Chinese porcelain and furniture from Japanese collectors. Among them, there are important imperial foreign color brocade flower pattern tea leaves in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and the taihei elephant vase and the old collection from the famous family Hosokawa family, which is quite rare.
Qingqianlong Imperial Yangcai Jindi floral pattern tea end glaze Taiping elephant vase
During the Qianlong period, the national strength was prosperous, so the Qianlong Dynasty fired good utensils at all costs and was known for its luxury, and it was also a category of Western elements. To Qianlong, it is extremely exquisite and exquisite, and it is almost as colorful as its style and superb technology, all of which are unprecedented, and can be called the peak era of Chinese colored porcelain.
The use of foreign color with tea glaze is an innovative masterpiece of complex craftsmanship. The neck is made of carmine color, and the elaborate brocade is delicate and gorgeous, and it is lined with unique Western-style tangled flowers and butterfly patterns, and the color and ornamentation are exquisitely crafted, which can be described as a typical icing on the cake technique. The single color glaze color applied by the main body is called factory official glaze, commonly known as the tea end glaze. The "Notes on the Southern Kiln" says: "(Factory Official Kiln) its colors are eel yellow, oil green, purple and gold, which are fired by the kiln of the factory directly under the factory, hence the name." Multi-cylinder, bowl and the like, glaze Canggu, with the kilns into another one. Today's imitators use purple and gold mixed glaze, white clay with a combination, better than the old kiln."
The person referred to in the text is better than the old kiln, which is the Qing Dynasty work to which this vessel belongs. At that time, it was the exclusive glaze color of the court made by the Qing Dynasty Imperial Kiln Factory, and was only for the royal family to appreciate. To Yongzheng, more valued, Qianlong period, the most refined.
The lid of this lot box is affixed with the Kyoto National Museum Management Stamp
There is an example of a heart-turning bottle that is similar to this instrument, which has been auctioned on Christie's in New York and Sotheby's in Hong Kong. The two are closely related.
The bottom of this lot is a six-character seal book in red color "Qianlong Year of the Great Qing Dynasty", which is very similar to the red color base of a "Qianlong Pastel Blue Earth Cloud And Phoenix Elephant Ear Bottle" in the Palace Museum. In addition, the bottleneck shape of this lot and the Collection of the Forbidden City is "Taiping Elephant" double elephant ears, for reference.
Qingqianlong imitation glaze square daffodil basin
The daffodil basin can be described as a representative artifact of the elegant life of the Song people. With the scarce precious porcelain varieties of the Song Dynasty, regardless of the cost, the extremely elegant objects of the Song Dynasty are reproduced, showing the Qianlong Chonggu imitation of the ancients, but also reflecting the peak of national strength at that time. This device is square,four corners of the atmosphere, the mouth edge is folded outward, straight abdomen, flat bottom, the lower ruyi cloud head and foot four, the sole of the foot exposed dark tire. The shape is simple and concise. The glaze is "imitation glaze", and the glaze is covered with open pieces. At the bottom of the utensils is the "Qianlong Year of the Great Qing Dynasty" six-character three-line blue and white seal book. The glaze color of this vessel is particularly beautiful. Like a brother, warm and fat, light and elegant, very rich in Song porcelain aesthetic connotations.
The Hosokawa family, which has lasted for nearly 800 years since the Kamakura period in Japan, is extremely influential in Japanese society. The Hosokawa family collection, with cultural and artistic bits, also has an extraordinary connoisseur vision, its collection of hundreds of thousands of items, national treasure level cultural relics are all in sight, is an extraordinary family in the art collection industry.
In Meguradai, Tokyo, there is a small, handsome three-story building called the Nagashin Bunko, which houses a collection passed down from generation to generation by the Hosokawa family. The Nagasei Bunko was established in 1950 by hosokawa, the 16th generation of the Hosokawa clan, and the name of the museum is Eiqing, which is taken from the characters for "Yong" in Bodhi Temple, Kyoto Kennin-ji Temple, and the "Qing" character for Kiyoshiji Castle. The building is called the Bunko, but it is actually a simple but valuable museum.
Qing Kangxi Colorful pheasant peony pattern phoenix-tailed zun
This type of instrument is copied from the Bronze Age flowers in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and was made breakthrough improvements in the Kangxi Period, which can be described as a very representative display type of the Kangxi Dynasty. The whole body of this vessel is made of white glaze, and the pheasant peony is painted with red, yellow, green, blue, brown, black and other colors on the travertine. Lined with magnolia and chrysanthemum patterns. In the picture, the travertine stones are staggered, the pheasants perched on the stones, full of looks, the side paintings of folded branches of peonies, the red gourds are moving, there are discs blooming, and there are also double peony with great characteristics of the Kangxi era. The picture of pheasant peony has been ancient, the pheasant is a festive bird, the chicken is the harmonic sound of auspiciousness, which means auspicious and satisfactory, and it has become a classic popular pattern during the Kangxi period. The beautiful shape of this instrument, the free stretch of the composition, the real and flexible ornamentation, and the brilliant color of the color materials are very representative of the Kangxi multicolored art treasures. The Palace Museum in Beijing has a similar collection.
Qingqianlong rosewood carving passionflower pattern rectangular painting case
This product is rosewood. The case surface lattice corner frame is equipped with three panel hearts, and the corset is rarely covered with lotus patterns under the strip-like cheeks. Underneath it, the traditional dragon pattern evolved from the abductor pattern is a skeleton, interspersed with a Western-style tangled passionflower pattern, and extended to the four legs and the abduction pattern teeth are formed into one, stretching smoothly and naturally.
Rosewood wood is hard and dense, with deep hues and changing textures, it is regarded as the best of wood, and it is said that "one inch of rosewood is one inch of gold". And because of its slow growth, non-hundreds of years can not be made of wood, the material is extremely rare, so among the traditional furniture, rosewood is more top material. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, rosewood was favored by the royal nobility.
Qing wood carving inlaid blue and white inlay with tangled branches of the lotus stripe case
This table is skillfully carved, and the high table with flat on all sides has become popular in the Song Dynasty, and there are good examples of the Song people's picture album "Semi-idle Autumn Xingtu". In the Ming and Qing dynasties, different styles and manufacturing methods were developed. Square straight legs, the bottom of the handsome high horseshoe. No flexing between the legs. The blue and white porcelain plate embedded in the table body has a series of ornaments, which are inspired by the rings or other geometric shapes commonly found on bamboo furniture, and the meaning of the double ring interlocking ornament is auspicious, prevalent in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the shape is similar to the ancient coin, there is a "double money" phase, and the sound class "double complete", auspicious meaning is obvious.
Collections of different materials embedded in wooden furniture are common, among which furniture with the meaning of auspiciousness and double happiness can refer to the Octagonal Incense Table in the Forbidden City of Beijing, inlaid with filigree enamel panels, recorded in Hu Desheng, "The Palace Museum Collects Ming and Qing Court Furniture Grand View", volume 1, Beijing, 2007, plate 319.