Lot 124
TWO CRACKLE-GROUND VASES
CHENGHUA MARKS BUT QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 13 March 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
清 成化款 哥釉青花人物紋小棒槌瓶 及 哥釉鐵鏽花舖首蒜頭瓶
comprising: a mallet vase decorated with underglaze blue with two figures surrounded by bogo motif, and a garlic-head vase flanked with moulded lion heads on the neck as handles, the bulbous body with vertical ribs, both with a four-character apocryphal Chenghua mark on the bases
Dimensions
heights: 25.7cm and 21.1cm
Provenance
From the collection of George Forrest (13 March 1873 - 5 January 1932).
George Forrest was an important Scottish botanist born in Falkirk. In 1904, he was sponsored by a horticulturist and cotton broker- Arthur Kilpin Bulley (1861-1942), to embark on an expedition to China's then-remote southwestern province of Yunnan, in search of plants new to horticulture in Europe, particularly species of rhododendron. Altogether, Forrest made seven trips to the region, ranging as far afield as upper Burma, eastern Tibet and Sichuan province. In 1932, he passed away just outside of the town of Tengchong, previously known as Tengyue or Tengyueh.
His Asian Art collection was partially donated to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. These two vases were on loan, loan numbers A.L.331.7 and A.L.331.8, with associated labels on bases. The objects on loan for decades were deaccessioned in 2023, thence by direct descent.