Lot 299
FAMILLE ROSE 'MANTIS AND CICADA' VASE
REPUBLIC PERIOD
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 14 May 2021 at 11:00 BST
£3,750
Description
民國 李明亮款 景鎮華豐公司底款 粉彩螳螂捕蟬紋題詩瓶
thinly potted, painted on the tapered body with bare willow branches perched by large cicadas, a praying mantis raised its sharp front legs ready to strike, inscribed with a poem and signed 'Li Ming Liang' to one side, the base inscribed with a six-character'Jing Zhen Hua Feng Gong Si' (Hua Feng Company in Jin Town) in iron-red
Dimensions
24cm high
Footnote
Note: Li Mingliang, a renown porcelain painter in the Republic Period, one of the 'Zhushan Eight Friends', active in the 1930s to 1940s, specialises in depicting insects and floral