http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/ Pater Gratia Oriental Art Sat, 19 May 2012 17:02:07 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12094 Object 2010C74   Bowl   Provenance: China   Dating: Late Tianqi Period (1621-1627) or Chongzhen Period (1628-1544), c.1625-1650   Ko-sometsuke, literally meaning "old blue-and-white ware", bowl on footring with an unlazed base, a straight rim. Decorated in underglaze blue.   On the interior wall a decoration four horses and on the bottom a single could motif. the exterior wall is undecorated.   According to Ströber in her book "Symbols on Chinese porcelain. 10 000 times happiness" in China, horses symbolise speed, power, energy and military status, many legends are connected with famous horses. One is the story of the eight horses of the emperor Mu, a favourite subject of Chinese artist. Apparently since this bowl was meant for the Japanese market the need to paint more than four horses was not there.    Sometsuke is a type of blue-and-white porcelain-ware that was produced during early 17th century in privately owned kilns in Jingdezhen a town in Jiangxi Province, China. Ko-sometsuke the prefix "Ko" meaning "old", is the Japanese name for Sometsuke imported from China to Japan. Though sometsuke was not made using high quality clay or glazes, the free-spirited decorations and designs made it popular in Japan. They were particularly sought after by tea-ceremony masters to be used as utensils. (source: E-Budo.com, J. Lindsey.)   Dimensions:   Height: 52 mm (2,05 inch) Diameter: 147 mm (5,79 inch) Diameter of footring: 52 mm (2,05 inch)   Condition: A firing flaw, two glaze chips and various large unglazed spots to the rim.    References: E, Ströber, Symbols on Chinese porcelain. 10 000 times happiness, Stuttgart 2011, pp.91-92.   Price: € 499 - $ 641 - £ 398 (the $ and £ prices are approximates and depend on the € price exchange rate) Recent acquisitions Sat, 19 May 2012 17:02:07 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-705 On this page you'll find my latest acquisitions.   This way you can quickly browse through my recently acquired objects without having to browse through all the various categories.   After four weeks the item will be moved to its chronological Dynasty or Period.   Latest update; May 19th, 2012 Recent acquisitions Sat, 19 May 2012 17:01:31 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12071 Object 2010C71   Baluster vase   Provenance: Japan   Dating: Late 17th century early 18th century, c.1700   Baluster vase on footring with a glazed base. Imari decorated in relief in underglaze blue, iron-red and gold.   On both sides decorated in relief with flowering chrysanthemum plants and leaves growing from pierced rockwork. Round the neck, two half chrysanthemum flower heads with leaves. The replaced, custom made, Belgium silver marked cover is similar decorated with chrysanthemum flower heads with leaves.   The silver marks explained:   950M: the silver purity mark 925/1000 ALTENICH BRUXELLES: name and city of the maker of the cover Half moon, V and star: the makers mark 6671: the makers number of the object   Weight of the of the silver cover: 87 grams / 3.06 ounces   Dimensions:   Height (including the cover): 260 mm (10.24 inch) Height (excluding the cover): 210 mm (8.27 inch) Diameter: 50 mm (1.97 inch): 100 mm (3.94 inch) Diameter of mouthrim: 50 X 40 mm (1.97 X 1.57 inch) Diameter of footring: 80 X 65 mm (3.15 X 2.56 inch)   Condition: Two chips with short connected hairlines and two frits to the rim. Three glaze chips and a glaze frit to the foot and various missing pieces of glaze to the flower heads and leaves in relief.   Price: € 499 - $ 641 - £ 398 (the $ and £ prices are approximates and depend on the € price exchange rate) Recent acquisitions Fri, 18 May 2012 18:02:10 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12061 Object 2010C60   Dish   Provenance: China   The Diana Cargo sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 6-7 March 1995   Dating: Jiaqing period (1796-1820), 1817   Dish on a footring with a straight rim and an unglazed base, decorated in underglaze blue.   Decorated with a stylised "shou" character, long life, surrounded by ruyi lappets and stylised Sanscrit "om"characters.   The dish has the original "Christie's Diana Cargo March 1995" label and lot number label. The exact lot number on the "Christie's Diana Cargo March 1995" label is not readable anymore due to wear caused by the placement of the label just were it touches the surface as it stands. The lot number label is not readable due to a tear.   The dish was part of one following lot numbers decorated with a stylised "shou" character, long life, surrounded by ruyi lappets and stylised Sanscrit "om"characters; 374-416, 1199-1209, 1224-1235, 1253-1255, 1278-1279, 1284-1288 and 1296-1297.   Dimensions:   Height: 50 mm (1.97 inch) Diameter: 270 mm (10.63 inch) Diameter of footring: 165 mm (6.50 inch)   Condition: Four firing flaws to the footring.   References: The Diana Cargo. sale catalogue Christie's Amsterdam, 6/7 March, Amsterdam 1995, pp.56, 136-142, lot numbers; 374-416, 1199-1209, 1224-1235, 1253-1255, 1278-1279, 1284-1288 and 1296-1297.   Price: € 229 - $ 294 - £ 182 (the $ and £ prices are approximates and depend on the € price exchange rate) Recent acquisitions Thu, 17 May 2012 10:40:14 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12107 Object 2010C76   Bowl   Provenance: ChinaDating: Late Yongzheng Period (1723-1735) early Qianlong Periode (1736-1795), c.1730-1740    Bowl on footring with a glazed base, polychrome decorated in iron-red, gold and various overglaze enamels.   On the exterior wall a decoration of a flowering peony and chrysanthemum plant growing from behind a fence and two cockerels with a single flying butterfly. Round the exterior rim a border with flower heads and scrolls of branches. On the bottom a single flowering branch.   The blue enamel border is unique and rare.    Dimensions:   Height: 65 mm (2.56 inch) Diameter: 142 mm (5.59 inch) Diameter of footring: 70 mm (2.76 inch)   Condition: A hairline to the rim, some fine crazing to the glaze of the inner wall and a X-shaped glaze hairline to the base.   Price: € 499 - $ 636 - £ 397 (the $ and £ prices are approximates and depend on the € price exchange rate) Recent acquisitions Wed, 16 May 2012 09:32:46 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12058 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:28:28 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12059 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:27:53 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12060 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:27:29 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12057 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:27:15 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12056 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:27:02 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12055 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:26:48 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12054 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:26:32 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12053 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:26:18 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12052 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:26:07 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12051 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:25:50 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12050 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:25:38 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12049 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:25:24 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12048 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:25:06 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12047 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:24:53 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12046 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:24:30 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12045 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:24:21 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12044 Object 2010803, Milk jug, China. Wed, 16 May 2012 09:24:07 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-12043 Object 2010803   Milk jug   Provenance: China   Dating: Qianlong period (1736-1795), c.1745   Milk jug on footring, pear shaped body with handle, small triangular spout at the rim. The C-shaped handle is placed opposite the spout. Matching cover with knob. Decorated in iron-red, gold and various overglaze enamels.   Round the waist decorated with various merchants, sailors, ships, houses and a fort, in a "Meissen style" port or river scene. The cover is decorated with flowering branches.   According to Jörg in his book: Chinese export porcelain. Chine de Commande from the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, exhibition catalogue Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 1989, The design is a direct copy from a Meissen original, including the lobed cartouche pattern and rocaille which is typical of Meissen porcelain of the period 1720-1740. The very detailed and refined painting, so faithfully copying the original, illustrates the craftsmanship of the Chinese porcelain painter and the quality that could be reached in export porcelain. However Chine de Commande, like this must have cost a good deal more than the ordinary enamelled wares for export.   Dimensions:Height (including the cover): 122 mm (4.80 inch)Diameter: 72 mm (2.84 inch) Diameter of mouthrim: 37 mm (1.46 inch)Diameter of footring: 37 mm (1.46 inch)   Condition: The knob of the cover has been broken and glued back. A tiny frit to the tip of the spout and two tiny unglazed firing flaw spots to the handle.   References: C.J.A. Jörg, Chinese export porcelain. Chine de Commande from the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, exhibition catalogue Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 1989, pp. 226-227, nr. 89.   Price: Sold. Recent acquisitions Wed, 16 May 2012 09:23:36 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-11665 Object 2010C63   Dish   Provenance: China   Dating: Kangxi period (1662-1722)   Mark: Yü (jade) character mark of commendation in a double circle, underglaze blue.   Octagonal dish with panelled borders and a crowded central motif combining two designs, decorated in underglaze blue.   The moulded interior wall is divided into eight panels, four are decorated with river landscapes and four with flowering plants. In the center a spray of asters in the upper half of the design, the lower half of the design is well known in the Netherlands as the "cuckoo on the house", this design, the origin of which has never been explained, shows a small house and a separate tall chimney while two partridge-like birds fly in the sky. On the exterior wall three sprays of flowering branches and on the base the Yü (jade) character mark of commendation mark in a double, underglaze blue, circle. (source: D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader. The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff Collection. London, 1994)   For a similar illustrated dish see: D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader. The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff Collection. London, 1994, p.44, object 10.   Dimensions:   Height: 32 mm (1.26 inch) Diameter: 200 mm (7.87 inch) Diameter of footring: 127 mm (5.00 inch)   Condition: A restored chip and two frits to the rim and two hairlines with a firing flaw to the rim.   References: D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader. The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain illustrated from the Hodroff Collection. London, 1994, p.44, object 10. G. Davison, The handbook of marks on Chinese Ceramics, London 1994, p. 40, no. 33.   Price: Sold. Recent acquisitions Tue, 15 May 2012 17:36:13 GMT +0200 http://www.patergratiaorientalart.com/article-11940 Object 2010C72   Small dish   Provenance: China   Dating: Kangxi period (1662-1722)   Mark: Six character "Da Ming Cheng hua nian zhi", Made during the Chenghua reign of the Great Ming dynasty (AD1465-1487) mark in a double circle, underglaze blue.   Small dish on footring with a glazed base and a flattened rim, decorated in underglaze blue.   In the centre two "Long Eliza" figures standing in a fenced garden under a pine tree. According to Jörg in his book, "Oosters Porselein" Een keuze uit de verzameling van het Museum Boymans -van Beuningen/Oriental porcelain. A choice from the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum Collection, Rotterdam 1995, many plates, dishes and bowls from the middle Kangxi period are carefully painted with a great feeling for detail; the scenes tell a story and have been derived from woodcut illustrations of Chinese novels and plays. Two novels The Story of the Western Chamber and The Dream in the Red Chamber are particularly noted for providing subjects. On the flattened rim four panels containing flowering prunus branches reserved on a trellis diaper ground. The motif on the back of the plate, a rocky shore, is found not only on good quality blue and white plates and dishes but also on famille verte; it appears to have been used in particular at the beginning of the 18th century.   Dimensions:   Height: 21 mm (0.83 inch) Diameter: 162 mm (6.38 inch) Diameter of footring: 94 mm (3.70 inch)   Condition: Two shallow glaze chips to the front and various tiny glaze frits, fleabites and rough spots to the reverse side of the rim   References: G. Davison, The handbook of marks on Chinese Ceramics, London 1994, p.120, 1334.   Price: € 375 - $ 486 - £ 300 (the $ and £ prices are approximates and depend on the € price exchange rate) Recent acquisitions Tue, 15 May 2012 17:35:53 GMT +0200