Five Thousand Years of Finest Chinese Works of Art

[Music] we are pleased to offer at our July cells an exciting array of the very finest Chinese art spanning five thousand years and all the richness of materials that China is known for from Jay to lacquer hardwood metal and of course porcelain the desert is East also the cell is the Magnificent ghana reticulated enameled vance which was lost so to speak for the last 70 years and has only recently been found again in a remote country house in central europe the vasa represents the culmination of centuries of ingenuity in the arts of China and carries with it China's glorious past with multiple references to ancient works about as well as the styles important from the European courts that when vogue at a time at the court of Emperor channel reticulated vases of this type were a technical tour de force there was only attempted under the stewardship of tounging the eminent killed supervisor who produced such pieces in very limited quantities only during the seven and eighth year of the channel reign the production of the present vows is traceable in the Imperial archives to the seventh year of the reign in 1740 to the vows was lost often on the market at Sotheby's in London in 1954 when it held from the garner collection the celebrated mathematician and Chinese and scholar they then entered the collection of the great Dutch collector Henry Knight who kept it until his death in 1970 and then pass it on in the our theme cell entitled monochrome will celebrate the timeless understated elegant aesthetic that pervades the arts of China over the millennia with a small selection of exceptional our Kang Jae's made for ritual bronzes Song Dynasty ceramics and Ming Dynasty Guan hua Li furniture a particular note we're presenting one of the finest and larger cinnabar lacquer boxes ever to have been produced for the Yola emperor in the early 15th century the box is masterfully carved with pomegranate flowers and is one of only four known boxes of this particular size and quality the other three are kept in museums in Japan and Taiwan to celebrate the great London Chinese porcelain dealer Richard Martin's retirement from business and the advent of the fourth generation of Marchen dealers while offering 50 pieces of Qing Imperial porcelain and romantic of the firm's exacting standards for quality and condition one of the highlights is an exceedingly fine blue and white veils of the channel period painting in brilliant tones of cobalt blue with Ming inspired floral scrolls one of our most simplest a seasons the clothes only enamel so-called monks Capua made for ritual use that the court of the young loesch render Emperor who has imperial tribute to a high-ranking Lama it may have once upon a time being used to pour butter tea monk scapulars of this type were produced in great numbers in porcelain but in clays own a are very costly and time-consuming technique only to including the present example are known to have survived the other known example is kept in Laos and Tibet these are only a few of the many treasures of Chinese art that we'll be presenting and do please go to our website to find out more about ourselves if you are in Hong Kong in July Duke come to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre where we'll be open for exhibition from July 5th onwards ahead of ourselves on July 11th thank you [Music]

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Published: Tue Jun 23 2020