Ceramics from the Collection of Peter Tcherepnine at Christie's, 7 - 24 July 2020

25 juillet 2020

Ceramics from the Collection of Peter Tcherepnine at Christie's, 7 - 24 July 2020

Lot 1. A purple-splashed Jun deep bowl, Jin dynasty (1115-1234); 43⁄8 in. (11.1 cm.) high. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000 (EUR 5,353.80 - EUR 7,138.40). Price realised USD 11,875. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.

The deep, rounded sides are covered inside and out with a thick glaze of milky blue tone decorated on the exterior with three purple splashes suffused with copper-green spots, the glaze stopping above the foot on the exterior and above the center on the interior.

Provenance: Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921) Collection.
Louisine Peters Weekes Tcherepnine (1886-1952).
Adaline Hathaway Weekes Scully (1915-1984) and thence by descent.

Property of the Collection of Peter Tcherepnine.

Note: The following group of Jun wares (lots 1-5), as well as the upcoming peachbloom-glaze vase (lot 23), came by descent to Peter Tcherepnine from the renowned collection of Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921). A director of several coal companies and a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1914 to 1921, Peters was known as a great collector and amassed an impressive and large collection of Chinese works of art. In his obituary the New York Times noted that Peters’ gift of some 400 jades to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1912 and 1916 “form a collection probably unsurpassed anywhere.”

Peters was also known as a great admirer of Chinese pottery, Song-dynasty wares, and porcelains. His wife, née Adeline Elder (1859-1943), donated hundreds of pieces from his collection to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1926. This gift seems to have been preceded by a loan that was recorded in The Metropolitan Museum of Art ’s February 1927 Bulletin, Vol, 22, pp. 44-47, under the title “An Important Loan of Early Chinese Pottery,” where it was noted that The Met had tried for years to form a representative collection of Song-pottery wares, without success. The author goes on to state (p. 46) that with the addition of the Peters’ loan, the new and aspiring collector can “study the different glazes, the marvelous Sung shapes, and the many varieties as in no other public collection. This happy change has come about through the generous loan by Mrs. Peters from the collection made by her late husband Samuel T. Peters, once a trustee of our Museum and one of the first collectors in this country to recognize the beauty and interest of early Chinese ceramics."

Lot 2. A rare purple-splashed Jun bowl, Northern Song dynasty (960-1279); 51⁄2 in. (14 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 25,000 (EUR 13,384.50 - EUR 22,307.50). Price realised USD 187,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.

The bowl is delicately potted with rounded sides, and covered inside and out with a lavender-blue glaze, with areas of purple splashes on the exterior and interior, which thins to mushroom on the rim and falls in an irregular line above the neatly cut foot. The base is partially glazed.

Provenance: Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921) Collection, no. 171.
Louisine Peters Weekes Tcherepnine (1886-1952).
Adaline Hathaway Weekes Scully (1915-1984) and thence by descent.

Property of the Collection of Peter Tcherepnine.

Lot 3. A large Jun bowl, Jin dynasty (1115-1234); 83⁄4 in. (22.2 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 7,000 - USD 9,000 (EUR 6,246.10 - EUR 8,030.70). Price realised USD 13,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.

The bowl of deep, rounded form is covered inside and out with a glaze of pale milky blue color which thins to mushroom on the rim.

Provenance: Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921) Collection, no. 150.
Louisine Peters Weekes Tcherepnine (1886-1952).
Adaline Hathaway Weekes Scully (1915-1984) and thence by descent.

Property of the Collection of Peter Tcherepnine.

Lot 4. A purple-splashed Jun bowl, Jin-Yuan dynasty (1115-1368); 77⁄8 in. (20 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000 (EUR 2,676.90 - EUR 4,461.50). Price realised USD 4,375. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.

The bowl is of deep, rounded form, and is covered inside and out with a glaze of pale milky blue thinning to a mushroom color, and with a purple splash on the interior.

Provenance: Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921) Collection, no. 521.
Louisine Peters Weekes Tcherepnine (1886-1952).
Adaline Hathaway Weekes Scully (1915-1984) and thence by descent.

Property of the Collection of Peter Tcherepnine.

Lot 23. A peachbloom-glazed vase, liuye zun, Kangxi six-character mark in underglaze blue and probably of the period (1662-1722); 5 in. (12.7 cm.) high. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000 (EUR 5,353.80 - EUR 7,138.40). Price realised USD 21,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.

The elegant, tapering, high-shouldered body is covered in a glaze of crushed-strawberry-red color shading to paler areas with some moss-green mottling. The gilt mount at the mouth is stamped 'TIFFANY & CO. 18KT.', brass stand.

Provenance: Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921) Collection.
Louisine Peters Weekes Tcherepnine (1886-1952).
Adaline Hathaway Weekes Scully (1915-1984) and thence by descent.

Property of the Collection of Peter Tcherepnine.

Note: This peachbloom-glazed vase, as well as the group of Jun wares at the beginning of the sale (lots 1-5) came by descent to Peter Tcherepnine from the renowned collection of Samuel T. Peters (1854-1921). A director of several coal companies and a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1914 to 1921, Peters was known as a great collector and amassed an impressive and large collection of Chinese works of art. In his obituary the New York Times noted that Peters’ gift of some 400 jades to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1912 and 1916 “form a collection probably unsurpassed anywhere.”

Peters was also known as a great admirer of Chinese pottery, Song-dynasty wares, and porcelains. His wife, née Adeline Elder (1859-1943), donated hundreds of pieces from his collection to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1926. This gift seems to have been preceded by a loan that was recorded in The Metropolitan Museum of Art ’s February 1927 Bulletin, Vol, 22, pp. 44-47, under the title “An Important Loan of Early Chinese Pottery,” where it was noted that The Met had tried for years to form a representative collection of Song-pottery wares, without success. The author goes on to state (p. 46) that with the addition of the Peters’ loan, the new and aspiring collector can “study the different glazes, the marvelous Sung shapes, and the many varieties as in no other public collection. This happy change has come about through the generous loan by Mrs. Peters from the collection made by her late husband Samuel T. Peters, once a trustee of our Museum and one of the first collectors in this country to recognize the beauty and interest of early Chinese ceramics."

Christie's. Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Online, 7 - 24 July 2020

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