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＂Ceramic Crafts＂ 2023 Habsburg Auction - Summary of Purple Clay Pots with Sales Exceeding 5 Million

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Habsburg International Auction | 2024-03-21 14:07

2023 Habsburg Auction - Summary of Purple Clay Pots with Sales Exceeding 5 Million

No.1 Gu Jingzhou's Bamboo Drum Pot

Auction Session: December 16, 2023 Qatar Auction - Miscellaneous Session

Collection specifications: W: 18.2cm H: 8.8cm

Starting price: QAR 12600000

Transaction price: QAR 150000000 (equivalent to RMB 29.61 million)

Collection Description: Stamps: "Manxi Pottery" and "Gu Jingzhou". This pot is shaped and shaped from bamboo, with lines as the decoration of the pot body, expressing a graceful, firm and soft balance, and a full and thick charm.

No.2 Ming Li Maolin's Flat Shouldered Lotus Monk Hat Pot

Auction Session: December 16, 2023 Qatar Auction - Miscellaneous Session

Collection specifications: W: 15.4cm H: 6.6cm

Starting price: QAR 14000000

Transaction price: QAR 150000000 (equivalent to RMB 29.61 million)

Collection Description: Inscription: "Floating Frost, Cold Moon, After Rain, Clear Clouds, Fragrant Flows, Moisturizing Thirst, Stopping Heat and Removing Ice", "Wanli Dingchou Zijing Mr. Suo, Wen Jiaming". Print: "Maolin". "Maolin" refers to Li Maolin, also known as Li Yangxin, who was a master of pot making in Yixing during the Jiajing and Wanli periods of the Ming Dynasty. From the bottom inscription, it can be seen that Xiang Yuanbian specially invited Wen Jia to engrave an inscription. Xiang Yuanbian was a great collector of ancient calligraphy and painting, and Wen Jia was the second son of Wen Zhengming, whose eldest son, Wen Peng, had already passed away.

No.3 Qing Qianlong Lion Ball Hexagonal Purple Sand Jar

Auction Session: December 16, 2023 Qatar Auction - Miscellaneous Session

Collection specifications: L: 16.3cm W: 9.8cm H: 10.8cm

Starting price: QAR 14900000

Transaction price: QAR 14900000 (equivalent to RMB 29.41 million)

No.4 Ganqing Palace Imperial Zang Chen Wuyuan Purple Clay Pot

Auction Session: December 16, 2023 Qatar Auction - Miscellaneous Session

Collection specifications: H: 10.5cm W: 16.5cm

Starting price: QAR 13000000

Transaction price: QAR 13 million (equivalent to RMB 25.66 million)

Collection Description: Chen Mingyuan's Purple Clay Pot, housed in the Imperial Palace of Ganqing, is a precious cultural relic that represents the exquisite craftsmanship and unique style of ancient Chinese purple clay ware production. Chen Mingyuan was a famous purple clay artist during the Kangxi and Yongzheng periods of the Qing Dynasty. His works are known for their exquisite craftsmanship, unique style, and innovative design. One of his representative works is the Chen Mingyuan purple clay teapot, which is kept in the imperial collection of Ganqing Palace. The teapot has a beautiful body shape, smooth lines, and the design of the spout, handle, and lid is also very exquisite.

No.5 Gu Jingzhou's Bamboo Leaf Poetry and Literature Purple Clay Pot

Auction Session: September 30, 2023 Singapore Auction - Miscellaneous Session

Collection specifications: H: 9cm L: 17.3cm W: 11.7cm

Starting price: SGD 4770000

Transaction price: SGD 4770000 (equivalent to RMB 25.6 million)

No.6 Chen Mingyuan Flower Pot Pumpkin Purple Clay Pot

Auction Session: September 30, 2023 Singapore Auction - Miscellaneous Session

Collection specifications: L: 19.5cm W: 12.5cm H: 10.7cm

Starting price: SGD 2220000

Transaction price: SGD 3200000 (equivalent to RMB 17.17 million)

Collection Description: Chen Mingyuan, with the courtesy name Mingyuan, also known as Hefeng and Shixia Shanren, is a famous artist in Yixing Purple Sand during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. He has achieved great success in pot art and exquisite products for hundreds of years. Chen Mingyuan was born into a family of purple clay, and has produced dozens of exquisite tea sets and elegant toys, all of which are unparalleled. He also pioneered the style of engraving poetry and inscriptions on the pot body, using inscriptions and seals for signature. The style is elegant and has a prosperous Tang style, and his works are renowned both domestically and internationally. At that time, there was a saying of "overseas competition for Mingyuan dishes", which established outstanding achievements in the development history of purple clay pottery. Chen Mingyuan also pioneered the use of engraved poetry inscriptions on the teapot body as decoration, with inscriptions combining names and seals, incorporating the decorative art and calligraphy style of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy into the production process of sand teapots. This added a lot of timeless decorative charm to the originally plain teapot body, and also made the sand teapot more bookish. In addition, the calligraphy of poetry inscriptions and calligraphy inscriptions was elegant, healthy, and elegant, with a rich Jin and Tang style, thus integrating the art of teapots, tea tasting, and the elegance of literati, greatly enhancing the artistic and cultural value of sand teapots.

No.7 Zhukexin Purple Sand Golden Dragon Pattern Pot

Auction Session: December 16, 2023 Qatar Auction - Miscellaneous Session

Collection specifications: H: 15.5cm W: 26cm

Starting price: QAR 7880000

Transaction price: QAR 8000000 (equivalent to RMB 15.79 million)

Collection Description: Zhu Kexin is an important figure in the history of modern Chinese purple clay. He is a famous artist of Yixing purple clay and the first generation master of purple clay craftsmanship in New China. His works have high artistic and collection value. The Purple Sand Golden Dragon Pattern Pot is a traditional Yixing Purple Sand Pot, which is usually made of Yixing Purple Sand Mud. The surface of the pot body is painted with a dragon pattern in gold. It is a precious collectible.

No.8 Jiang Rong Purple Clay Pot

Auction Session: December 16, 2023 Qatar Auction - Miscellaneous Session

Collection specification: H: 12cm WT: 418g

Starting price: QAR 5680000

Transaction price: QAR 6500000 (equivalent to RMB 12.83 million)

Collection Description: Jiang Rong (1919-2008), also known as Lin Feng, is a Qianluo native of Chuanbu, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province. She is an important figure in the history of Chinese purple clay craftsmanship and is known as a contemporary master of purple clay teapot art. His main representative works include lotus pots, peony pots, golden melon pots, diamond shaped pots, pumpkin ashtrays, etc. Jiang Rong's works are exquisitely skilled, vivid and authentic, setting a unique example, making her the first female master of arts and crafts in the history of Chinese purple clay craftsmanship. Her works won a special prize at the National Industrial Conference and made gifts for Premier Zhou Enlai's visits to Southeast Asia and other countries. In 1956, the People's Government of Jiangsu Province appointed her as the "technical mentor" of the purple sand craft, which was the highest honor and treatment in the craft industry at that time. Jiang Rong is also a member of the China Art Society, a member of the China Arts and Crafts Design Association, and an honorary director of the Jiangsu Arts and Crafts Association.

No.9 Pumpkin Cap Spring Pot

Auction Session: December 16, 2023 Qatar Auction - Miscellaneous Session

Collection specifications: W: 12.6cm H: 6.6cm

Starting price: QAR 5900000

Transaction price: QAR 5900000 (equivalent to RMB 11.64 million)

Collection Description: Gongchun Pot is a pot made by the famous craftsman Gongchun in Yixing, Jiangsu during the Zhengde and Jiajing periods of the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that his surname is Gong and his name is Chun. Later, inspired by the monks of Jinsha Temple, this type of pot was made by imitating the natural and rugged posture of tree stumps. Its simple and lovely shape was widely loved, and it was called the "Gongchun" pot due to the homophonic name of the maker. The shape of the teapot later became widely circulated, and since the Qing Dynasty, many purple clay masters have been practicing it.

No.10 Gu Jingzhou Panlong Purple Sand Pot

Auction Session: December 16, 2023 Qatar Auction - Miscellaneous Session

Collection specification: H: 13.5cm

Starting price: QAR 4980000

Transaction price: QAR 5000000 (equivalent to RMB 9.87 million)

No.11: A round teapot made by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, featuring purple sand painted with gold, landscape poetry, and literature

Auction Session: December 16, 2023 Qatar Auction - Miscellaneous Session

Collection specifications: W: 16.5cm H: 9cm

Starting price: QAR 3900000

Transaction price: QAR 3900000 (equivalent to RMB 7.69 million)

Collection Description: This round purple sand painted landscape poetry and prose teapot is a rare imperial product of the Qianlong Palace. On one side of the teapot, a golden seal script excerpts from Emperor Qianlong's poetry and prose "Leaving Remaining Mountains in the Rain and Odes to Scenery" in Longjing. The text is dignified and elegant. On the other side, painted in the style of the Four Kings of Nanzong, there are distant lakes and green mountains. Nearby, there are dense trees and layers of rocks, dotted with new moss. There is a small pavilion in the painting. There is no one in the pavilion or in the painting, because that person is currently enjoying the painting in a teapot, tracing back to the poetic and beautiful scene in Longjing at that time.