Qing Jiaqing Blue Land Golden Color Wanfu Lianlian Garlic Bottle (pair)

"Great Qing Jiaqing Year System" six-character three-line seal book

Palace heavy equipment, Yuanmingyuan relics, heirloom products.

This pair of lot bottle mouth along the introverted, under the mouth outside the lonely, shaped like garlic head, long neck, slippery shoulders, straight round abdomen, shallow circle feet, beautiful shape. The whole body is based on blue glaze, and Xu Zhiheng's "Drinking Stream Zhai Porcelain" at the end of the Qing Dynasty said: Ancient porcelain is still green, and all green and blue are enclosed in blue. Since its inception in the Yuan Dynasty, it has been listed as the superior product of color glaze.

The blue ground is painted with gold, and the mouth is symmetrically painted with a western lotus and floral pattern with a circle of grass patterns, and the shoulders and neck parts are separated by double-circle gold threads, and the neck is painted with hieroglyphic bats, which means auspicious celebration. At the same time, cross-symmetrical interval painting tangled lotus pattern, sandwiched with circles of soft branches and leaves, the composition is rigorous, the layout is compact, the painting is fine, and depicted with different shades of gold color, increasing the effect of the level, the center of the tangled lotus pattern is decorated with the "swastika" logo, and the arrangement between the branches and leaves is orderly, the distribution is decent, the shoulders are decorated with ruyi cloud pattern, banana leaf pattern, the pattern of the cloud pattern is relatively symmetrical, the picture is continuous, simple and elegant, the abdomen is also painted with a tangled lotus pattern, the lower part is painted with a circle grass pattern, and the ruyi cloud head pattern is painted for a week. The near-sole foot painting has a circle of cloud patterns, bright gold colors, fused into one, to achieve a perfect effect, giving people a neat, elegant and thoughtful feeling. During the Qing Kangxi period, foreign color crafts were introduced from Europe, which made the traditional gold color process innovative, and in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the use of gold color technology was even more pure and pure, which continued until the Jiaqing period. This pair of jiaqing period masterpieces, is the use of court furnishings, can be seen in the palace of many treasures, after hundreds of years, the quality of the whole United States, it is not easy, should be passed down to the world.

See:

"The Palace Museum Collection of Cultural Relics and Treasures ・ Color Glaze", Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House, Commercial Press (Hong Kong), 1999, page 102, figure 94, page 93, figure 86, page 82, figure 75, page 83, figure 76.

Appreciation of Porcelain in the Qing Dynasty, Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House, Zhonghua Bookstore (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., edited by Qian Zhenying, 1994, p. 120, Figure 149.

Put the mountain house

Top Victorian Chinese art collector in the UK

Alfred Morrison (1821-1894) (Figure 1) was the second son of james Morrison, the richest millionaire, in the nineteenth century, when he was a commoner who worked in the textile industry and trade. James Morrison (b. 1789) was probably the richest millionaire to become a commoner in the nineteenth century. James Morrison's father was a local innkeeper, and as a young man James Morrison left his hometown of Hampshire in the south of England to find better development opportunities. Alfred Morrison grew up in a carefree environment, enjoying the comfort of the Harley Street mansion and the Poultdon estate in Wiltshire and the Basildon estate in Berkshire. Alfred Morrison, who received higher education at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge, spent more than three years conducting regular north-south cross-business expeditions to the North American continent for his father James Morrison's commercial bank, and in 1842, during his business expeditions, his brother Charles wrote to his home: "I am observing Alfred — I don't think he will become a professional businessman... ... I don't think it's necessary to make him the treasurer in the accounting room, [he] has no monetary values, only likes his laid-back (private collections)."

Fortunately, Alfred Morrison was not forced to become the "treasurer of the accounting room". When James Morrison died in 1857 AD, Alfred Morrison inherited from his father the estate of Fonthill Manor in Wiltshire (Figure 2) and the £750,000 in the stock market, just as William Beckford (English writer and collector, 1759-1844, famous for writing Arabic stories in French and his ornate estate) alfred With the funds of his inherited estate, he has amassed an extraordinary collection of artistic treasures. He initially collected carved art and Chinese art, and later most of the Chinese art was collected by Henry Durlacher. However, part of the interesting collection of Chinese porcelain and metal tire enamel was purchased by Sir Drylaw (1827-1900), for which Alfred commissioned the then internationally renowned architect Owen Jones to design and decorate a Chinese-style room at Fonthill Manor to decorate his Chinese artworks. (See The Builder, 9 May 1874, p. 385)

Alfred's home is filled with various types of collections including paintings and sculptures, Bose carpets, tapestries, coins, Sila artwork, old photographs, ancient books and letters, as well as precious Chinese artifacts in the bright showroom of Fonthill Manor (Figure 3).

Christie's has held three important Chinese porcelain collections on Morrison's Fonthill ancestral collection so far, the first on 31 May 1965, when the famous Xuande filigree enamel lid jar is now in The Oldry collection, and the second on 18 October 1971, including Qianlong's filigree enamel and porcelain. The third meeting was held on 9 November 2004.

Research on the Morrison family was published by Caroline Dakers at Yale University Press.

Nowadays, whenever there is a collection of mountain dwellings on the auction field, it will attract great attention and repeatedly set record prices. On December 3, 2008, Christie's Hong Kong auctioned a "Qingqianlong Imperial Pink Pastel Rolled Road Butterfly Bottle" that was collected by it for HK$53.3 million; on December 2, 2010, Christie's Hong Kong held a special show for it "Crane Ming Jiugao - Fangshanju Imperial Treasures", all three of which lived up to expectations and sold at a high price, of which "Qing Jiaqing Huangdi Pastel Fushou Wannian Yunkou Bottle" sold for HK$90.26 million; on October 8, 2014, Sotheby's Hong Kong "Qingqianlong Pink Glazed Relief "Canglong Godson" The "picture jar" fetched a high price of HK$94.2 million; and in the Sotheby's Autumn Auction in Hong Kong on October 7, 2010, a piece of "Qingqianlong Light Yellow And Yangcai Icing on the Cake "Longevity Lianyan" Tu Long-necked Gourd Bottle" was not originally estimated to be outstanding, but finally sold for HK$252,660,000, which attracted everyone's attention.

Its collection of exquisite and rare pieces has attracted everyone's attention, and this lot is also one of the finest works in its collection, which is rare enough to prove it.

source

Alfred Morrison Collection, Fonthill Heirlooms Collection No. 519

Christie's, London, 9 November 2004, Lot51

Zhongmao Shengjia, August 20, 2007, Lot 1609