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5 août 2014

A very rare Yixing stoneware archaistic 'recumbent deer' vessel. Inscribed Chen Zhongmei

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A very rare Yixing stoneware archaistic 'recumbent deer' vessel. Inscribed Chen Zhongmei. Photo Bonhams.

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Exquisitely potted as an elegant deer with legs tucked under its round body, carefully incised with fur markings and a pair of antlers flanking the tall neck rising to a flared mouth rim, the underside of the belly with the impressed four-character zhuanshu artist seal mark, the stoneware of a grainy creamy dark brown tone, wood stand carved with archaistic taotie masks. 14cm long. (2). Sold for HK$ 750,000 (€72,100)

Provenance: Sotheby Parke Bernet Hong Kong, 24 May 1978, lot 310

Illustrated: The Appreciation of Cultured and Elegant Purple Clay Wares, Taipei, 2008, p.48, pl.12.

The 17th century art historian Zhou Bogao recorded Chen Zhongmei as a native of Wuyuan who began working as a potter in Jingdezhen during the Wanli period (1573-1620). He left to go to Yangxian county to become a Yixing potter after the failure of his business in Jingdezhen. He had great artistry in mixing fine Yixing clay and he made superb copies and adaptations of archaistic shapes.

A near-identical deer vessel signed by Chen Zhongmei, possibly the pair to the present lot, is dated as early to mid-17th century and illustrated by K.S.Lo, The Stonewares of Yixing, From the Ming Period to the Present Day, Hong Kong, 1986, p.224, no.148. See an Yixing stoneware tapir, impressed with similar Chen Zhongmei seal mark, formerly in the Dr Ip Yee Collection and latterly the collection of Robert H. Blumenfield, sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2012, lot 1251; and a water vessel bearing the signature of Chen Zhongmei, from the collection of Tan Jing and Du Yuesheng, which was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, Hong Kong, 24 May 1978, lot 346, and again in these rooms, 27 May 2012, lot 546.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART. Hong Kong, Admiralty, 26 May 2014

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