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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROSALIND CHING PASTOR
A qianjiangcai enameled plaque
Late Qing dynastyRendered in the typical soft pastel palette, the tall rectangular plaque depicting the 'Three Friends of Winter' - a gnarled trunk of pine, blooming prunus blossoms, and leafy stalks of bamboo, the inscription including the artists name Yanggu with additional red seals reading Luo shi and zhi yin, and the cyclical date possibly reading yiwei (equivalent to 1895). 16 3/4in (42.5cm) visible height of porcelain
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Qianjiangcai or 'pastel palette' enamels reflected the Late Qing potter's inability to produce the more technically demanding vibrant colors of the earlier High Qing or the later Republic period. To borrow a modern aphorism however, the determined late Qing artisans turned this 'bug' into a 'feature:' the dreamlike faintness of these colors became popular with the melancholy intelligentsia of the time and led to masterworks by the best: Cheng Men (1833-1908) and Jin Pinqing (1862-1908) the most renowned. The present lot bearing a signature reading Luo Yanggu seems to be a fine example of this tradition.