Third Outing
Imperial kilns, Jingdezhen, 1796-1820
Height: 7 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.8/1.7 cm
Stopper: iron-red, turquoise-blue and gold enamels on porcelain, imitating a coral stopper set in a gilt-bronze collar; Guillaume Pons, London, c.2010
Provenance:
Private collection, Maryland
Michael Hughes, New York, September 2012
Famille rose enamels on colourless glaze on porcelain; with a slightly convex lip and recessed flat, oval foot surrounded by a protruding convex, oval foot rim; moulded and painted with a continuous design of the Eight Daoist Immortals in a waterside, rocky landscape, with three of them in a log boat (one reaching skywards towards a pavilion floating on formalized clouds), the other five standing on a grassy bank at the water’s edge, with a crane in flight, a tally in its beak, towards the heavenly dwelling, framed between base and shoulder bands of formalized lingzhi, the neck with a band of continuous leiwen (‘thunder pattern’), the foot inscribed in iron-red seal-script, Jiaqing nian zhi 嘉慶年製 (‘Made during the Jiaqing era’), the lip painted gold, the interior unglazed.
