A pair of grisaille-painted vases. Republic period (1912–1949) or later, 20th century - image-1
A pair of grisaille-painted vases. Republic period (1912–1949) or later, 20th century - image-2
A pair of grisaille-painted vases. Republic period (1912–1949) or later, 20th century - image-3
A pair of grisaille-painted vases. Republic period (1912–1949) or later, 20th century - image-1A pair of grisaille-painted vases. Republic period (1912–1949) or later, 20th century - image-2A pair of grisaille-painted vases. Republic period (1912–1949) or later, 20th century - image-3

Lot 165 Dα

A pair of grisaille-painted vases. Republic period (1912–1949) or later, 20th century

Auction 1203 - overview Cologne
11.06.2022, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
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A pair of grisaille-painted vases. Republic period (1912–1949) or later, 20th century

Ovoid body with long slender neck and flaring mouth, decorated all round in iron black and few enamel colours with a winter landscape, a small passage in the novel "The Three Kingdoms" in which Huang Chenyan, a reclusive scholar who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty, dressed in a fox fur riding on a donkey accompanied by a boy carrying the gourd wine, and reciting a poem. Inscription with the line of text from the novel "The Three Kingdoms": Qilu guo xiaoqiao, du tan meihua shou" (Riding a donkey over the small bridge, I sigh over the thin plum blossoms). An apocryphal Hongxian four-character mark. (2)
Height 20 cm

二十世紀 粉彩雪景長頸瓶一對
「洪憲年製」　款

黃承彥煖帽遮頭，狐裘蔽體，騎著一驢後隨一青衣小童，攜一葫蘆酒，踏雪而來； 轉過小橋， 口吟詩一首。

瓶上有截取三國演義中一首詩： 「騎驢過小橋, 獨嘆梅花瘦」