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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 3, 2018 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | The Yamanaka Reticulated Vase | 3001 | $****** - ****** | A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXQUISITELY ENAMELLED YANGCAI RETICULATED ‘FISH’ VASE |
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40.8 cm (16.06 in)
Yamanaka & Company, Osaka, Kyoto, New York and Boston, 1905.
The American Art Association, New York, 1905.
Acquired from Yamanaka by a Japanese private collector, 1924, thence by descent.
Antique and Modern Chinese and Japanese Objects of Art, Curios, Paintings, Prints, Textiles and Embroideries, The American Art Galleries, New York, January 1905, cat. no. 352 (illustrated).
superbly potted with a baluster body rising from a countersunk base to a tall waisted neck and galleried rim, the neck meticulously and elaborately decorated with a pendent ruyi border shaded in tones of grisaille, the border rendered suspending pearl strings whimsically enamelled with reflecting highlights to simulate three-dimensionality, depicted attached with auspicious emblems, including the 'double fish', 'good luck' talismans and musical stones, as well as stylised luxuriant floral blooms and Rococo-inspired undulating acanthus leaves with feathery fronds, all against a brilliant yellow ground neatly diapered with twelve-sided polygons, the lower section of the body ingeniously modelled with a celadon-reticulated wall of kui dragons and archaistic phoenix emphasised with gilt borders, framing four evenly spaced gilt-rimmed medallions exceptionally carved in relief with dynamic scenes of different fishes, the celadon-glazed reticulated shell revealing an inner vase decorated in shaded tones of underglaze blue with a composite floral scroll reminiscent of early Ming blue and white porcelains, the lower section of the vase bordered with two green-ground bands enclosing iron-red kui dragons, above a yellow-ground frieze of an opulent composite floral scroll, all between two key-fret bands encircling the rim and foot, the base enamelled turquoise and centred with a blue-enamel six-character seal mark within a double square
