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Blue-and-white stem bowl with lotus flowers and mandarin ducks, Yuan-Ming dynasty, mid-14th century

04 dimanche Jan 2015

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Blue-and-White, Jingdezhen kilns, mid 14th century, stem bowl, stem bowl with lotus flowers and mandarin ducks, Yuan-Ming Dynasty

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Blue-and-white stem bowl with lotus flowers and mandarin ducks, Yuan-Ming dynasty, mid-14th century. Jingdezhen kilns, porcelain, with underglaze painting in cobalt-blue; 17.8 cm (height), 18 cm (diameter), at foot 11.5 cm (diameter), 6.8 cm min. (diameter). Bequeathed by Professor A. H. Sayce, 1933. Accession no. EAX.1386. Ashmolean Museum © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

A pale green jade stem bowl, 15th century

19 vendredi Déc 2014

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15th century, pale green jade, stem bowl

A pale green jade stem bowl

A pale green jade stem bowl, 15th century. Sold for HK$ 562,500 (€59,029). Photo Bonhams.

Simply and skilfully carved with gently flaring sides and everted lip, standing on a tall, slightly-spreading hollow stem, the stone of a subtle pale green tone with delicate striations, wood stand. 13.3cm (5 1/4in) diam. (2).

Provenance: Somerset de Chair (1911-1995)

Fine jade vessels such as the present lot were some of the most prized objects collected in the Ming and later periods. Texts, archaeological evidence and sumptuary laws make clear that jade vessels were considered far more precious than gold or other precious metals: Craig Clunas points out that in the sixteenth year of Zhengde (1521), it was decreed that even officials of the first and second ranks were not allowed jade vessels, but only ones of gold: see ‘Regulation of Consumption and the Institution of Correct Morality by the Ming State’, Sinica Leidensia, vol.XXVII, 1993, pp.39-49.

The present bowl is particularly pleasing in its proportions, with a wide, welcoming brim, generously rounded body and elegant foot. In form it recalls the elegant porcelain stem cups of the Yongle and Xuande periods: see for example the anhua decorated tianbai-glazed stem cup, Yongle mark and period, illustrated by J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, no.3:1 or the anhua stem cup with underglaze red fruit decoration, Xuande period, ibid., no.4:7.

A stem bowl of similar proportions and jade tone, dated to the early Ming dynasty, from the collection of Gerald Godfrey was included in the exhibition Chinese Jade: The Image from Within, Pacific Asia Museum, 1986, Catalogue, no.75, where it was noted that the particular colour of the jade was known as ‘ox-hair’, presumably referring to the attractive darker hair-like lines running through the stone.

A darker green stem bowl of narrower brim is illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 7: Ming Dynasty, Beijing, 2010, no.213, and another described as ‘greenish-grey’ jade from the collection of Captain Dugald Malcolm was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1975, no.344. See also a related stem cup i

Bonhams. IMPORTANT JADE CARVINGS FROM THE SOMERSET DE CHAIR COLLECTION, 27 Nov 2014 14:00 HKT – HONG KONG, ADMIRALTY

Saint Louis Art Museum announces transformative gift of Asian and American art

06 jeudi Nov 2014

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10th-11th Century, and Auspicious Clouds, Bowl with Design of the Three Abundances, cong, Dish with Design of Gardenia Sprays, Ewer, Fang Ding, Floral Sprays, George Washington, Horse Groom, Liangzhu culture, Ming Dynasty, Northern Wei dynasty, Qing dynasty, Rectangular Food Vessel, Rembrandt Peale, Shang Dynasty, stem bowl, Xuande period, Yongzheng Period

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Chinese, Ewer with Design of Floral Scrolls and Spout in the Form of a Lion-Dog, 10th– 11th century; Saint Louis Art Museum, Spink Asian Art Collection, Bequest of Edith J. and C.C. Johnson Spink.

SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum on Monday accepted the transformative gift of 225 works of art from the collection of the late C.C. Johnson Spink and Edith “Edie” Spink.

The bequest includes superb works by American artists – including John Singleton Copley, Rembrandt Peale, Norman Rockwell and Andrew and Jamie Wyeth – but the gift is most notable for more than 200 works of Asian art that range from Chinese ceramics of the Neolithic period to works from Meiji-era Japan. The works of art were formally accepted Monday afternoon at a meeting of the museum’s collection committee.

The Spinks’ Asian art collection was developed with the intent of filling major gaps in the Art Museum’s collection and with a specific goal of allowing the museum to present a complete history of Chinese ceramics from prehistoric times to the end of the imperial system.

“This extraordinary gift is the result of three decades of strategic collecting by Johnson and Edie, who were guided by a shared desire to expand and elevate the Museum’s collection,” said Brent R. Benjamin, director of the Saint Louis Art Museum. “I am grateful for their generosity, and all of us at the museum are excited to include their legacy as an essential part of our visitors’ experience.”

Many of the most significant pieces in the collection have appreciated greatly in value in recent years, to the extent that it would have been impossible for the Museum to purchase them on the open market. A conservative estimate of the value of the Spink Asian Art Collection is $50 million. Certain pieces, in particular the most unusual and rare of the bronzes and porcelains, could command prices well over $5 million each.

“The Saint Louis Art Museum’s collection of Chinese art is impressive, but the dramatic increase in market prices has made it a challenge to further develop that area of the collection,” said Mark Weil, a Museum commissioner and the chairman of the museum’s collections committee. “This gift includes works of such a high level that we would have been unable to secure them at auction or in the private market.”

The Spink Asian Art Collection primarily comprises works by Chinese artists, although the gift also includes six important Japanese works. The collection includes 83 ceramics, eight works in glass, 52 jades and hardstones, 22 works made from lacquer and other organic materials, and 50 examples of metalwork. Highlights include:

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Rectangular Food Vessel (fang ding) with Flattened Feet in the Form of Kui-Dragons, a Shang dynasty (11th century BC) bronze bowl with two horseshoe handles and supported by four feet in the shape of long-tailed birds. Saint Louis Art Museum, Spink Asian Art Collection, Bequest of Edith J. and C.C. Johnson Spink.

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Ritual Object in the Form of a Prismatic Cylinder (cong), a rectangular shaped, dark green jade cylinder from the Liangzhu culture and dating to 3000–2000 BC. The object depicts 10 faces on each corner. Saint Louis Art Museum, Spink Asian Art Collection, Bequest of Edith J. and C.C. Johnson Spink.

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Standing Figure of a Horse Groom, an earthenware figure from the Northern Wei dynasty (early 6th century). Saint Louis Art Museum, Spink Asian Art Collection, Bequest of Edith J. and C.C. Johnson Spink.

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Stem Bowl with Design of Flowering Branches of Tree Peony, Pomegranate, Chrysanthemum, and Camellia, a large Jingdezhen ware stem bowl dating from the Xuande period of the Ming dynasty (early 15th century). Saint Louis Art Museum, Spink Asian Art Collection, Bequest of Edith J. and C.C. Johnson Spink.

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Bowl with Design of the Three Abundances, Floral Sprays, and Auspicious Clouds, a large carved pale blue and celadon-glazed bowl from the Yongzheng period of the Qing dynasty (early 18th century). Saint Louis Art Museum, Spink Asian Art Collection, Bequest of Edith J. and C.C. Johnson Spink.

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Dish with Design of Gardenia Sprays, a shallow, circular porcelain plate from the Yongzheng period of the Qing dynasty (early 18th century) featuring floral designs in white on a ground of blue underglaze. Saint Louis Art Museum, Spink Asian Art Collection, Bequest of Edith J. and C.C. Johnson Spink.

The gift demonstrates the broad collecting interests of the Spinks. In addition to Asian art, the gift includes such important works of American art as:

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George Washington, a bust-length portrait of the founding father from about 1845 by Rembrandt Peale. The painting, which includes a trompe l’oeil stone oval opening with visible cracks and seams in the stonework, is one of the best known depictions of Washington. Saint Louis Art Museum, Spink Asian Art Collection, Bequest of Edith J. and C.C. Johnson Spink.

Thanksgiving, an iconic 1943 painting by Norman Rockwell purchased from the artist by J.G. Taylor Spink and given to his son, C. C. Johnson Spink, upon his return from Coast Guard duty during World War II. The painting, which was reproduced for the Nov. 27, 1943 cover of the Saturday Evening Post, depicts a young refugee in war-ravaged Italy giving thanks for a GI’s rations and coat.

Hot Stove League, a 1956 painting by Rockwell that shows two old men bickering about baseball while keeping warm next to a potbelly stove. The painting, which shows one man holding a newspaper and another holding a baseball magazine, likely had a special significance for the Spink family, which owned The Sporting News and related baseball publications.

The watercolors Glass Lamps and Open Door by Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) and Butts and Cattle Rubbed by his son, Jamie Wyeth, that together highlight one of the most noteworthy families of American artists.

Many of the masterworks included in the Spink gift are already on view and can be seen in the Asian Art and American Art galleries thanks to a series of long-term loans approved by Mrs. Spink starting in 2004. Next year, several dozen ceramic pieces from the Spink Collection will be displayed in the complete reinstallation of Gallery 230.

The gift is a testament to museum patrons C.C. Johnson Spink and Edith “Edie” Spink. In the early 1970s, the St. Louis natives began a period of aggressively collecting art with the long-term goal of expanding the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum.

“The Spink’s generosity and investment in the Saint Louis Art Museum’s collections is inspirational,” said Barbara B. Taylor, president of the museum’s board of commissioners. “This gift illustrates their love of art and their desire to leave a legacy that will have an impact on our visitors for years to come.”

Charles Claude Johnson Spink was the publisher of The Sporting News, and he was the last owner from the family that in 1886 founded the St. Louis-based national sports publication known as “the Bible of Baseball.” After Mr. Spink died in 1992 at the age of 75, his wife Edith Spink entered politics. As mayor of Ladue, Mo. from 1995 to 2005, Mrs. Spink was one of the St. Louis area’s longest-serving mayors when she retired from office. She died in 2011 at the age of 90.

A white-glazed stem bowl, Ming dynasty, early 15th century

11 jeudi Sep 2014

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Early 15th century, he Edward T. Chow Collection, Ming Dynasty, stem bowl, white-glazed

A white-glazed stem bowl, Ming dynasty, early 15th century

A white-glazed stem bowl, Ming dynasty, early 15th century. Photo Christie’s Image Ltd 2014

The bowl has shallow rounded sides flaring to the everted rim, and is raised on a spreading stem foot. The interior and exterior are covered in a glaze of even white color. 5½ in. (13.7 cm.) diam. Lot 814. Estimate $50,000 – $70,000

Provenance: The Edward T. Chow Collection; Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 49.

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The present stem bowl has the beautifully balanced profile characteristic of the early 15th century, and is covered in the soft lustrous white glaze, which is called tianbai or ‘sweet white’ in Chinese. This glaze was developed in the Yongle reign and appears to have been a particular favorite of the emperor. More than ninety percent of the porcelains from this period, which were found at the site of the imperial kilns, were white wares. This reflects the aesthetic preference of the emperor, who demonstrated a special appreciation of plain white items, such as white jades. It is also a reflection of his adherence to Lamaist Buddhism. The anhua, or ‘secret decoration’ around the sides of this stem bowl depicts the Eight Buddhist Emblems.

The Yongle Emperor invited several important abbots from Tibetan monasteries to come to the Chinese capital at Nanjing, and received them with great ceremony. White porcelains of this type would have been made for use in the rituals performed during those visits, in particular those conducted by Halima in memory of the emperor’s deceased parents in 1407. Porcelains of this type were also sent by the emperor as gifts to the abbots of important Tibetan monasteries, where some of them have been preserved to the present day.

There are a number of published examples of anhua-decorated Yongle stem bowls, with and without marks. However, examples of undecorated stem bowls from the Yongle period appear to be much rarer. A slightly larger (15.2 cm. diam.) undecorated stem bowl with straight, flaring sides was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 607 and again on, 1 June 2011, lot 3822. Other undecorated tianbai or ‘sweet white’ wares are noted by Geng Baochang, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Forbidden City Press, 1993, p. 36, where it is cited that evidence from excavations at Jingdezhen indicate that stem bowls without decoration were produced. A similar stem bowl bearing an anhua Yongle mark is illustrated, Imperial Porcelains of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, pp. 84-85.

Christie’s. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 – 19 September 2014, New York, Rockefeller Plaza

A blue and white stem bowl, 15th-16th century

08 lundi Sep 2014

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15th-16th century, Blue-and-White, stem bowl

A blue and white stem bowl 15th/16th century

A blue and white stem bowl, 15th-16th century. Photo Bonhams.

The exterior painted with flowerhead roundels and stylised bird motifs, the interior with a further floral and foliate roundel, the foot with a keyfret band, all within underglaze blue double ring borders. 14.3cm (5 5/8in) diam. Estimate £1,200 – 1,600 (€1,500 – 2,000) 

Bonhams. ASIAN ART. 11 Sep 2014 10:30 BST. LONDON, KNIGHTSBRIDGE

Chinese blue and white porcelain stem bowl, Daoguang mark and of the period

03 mercredi Sep 2014

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blue and white porcelain, Daoguang mark and of the period, stem bowl

Chinese blue and white porcelain stem bowl, Daoguang mark and of the period

Chinese blue and white porcelain stem bowl, Daoguang mark and of the period © Freeman’s 2014

Decorated in the Tibetan style with ‘Lantsa’ characters among lotus scrolls and to stem with jeweled chains. H: 4 1/4 in. In good condition; a minute knock on the top rim; signs of wear consistent with its age. Estimate $3,000-5,000

Freeman’s. ASIAN ARTS. Saturday, September 13 at 10am

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