PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BARRY C TATTENHALL (1907-1989), LOTS 50-71
A COLLECTION OF MONOCHROME WASHERS
Qing Dynasty, one signed Sun Guiwan Comprising: A pair of apple green crackle glazed washers; a copper red glazed washer decorated to the interior en-grisaille with a dragon emerging from clouds; and a yellow glazed square biscuit washer carved with landscape panels and a dragon fish amongst waves to the interior, Sun Guiwan four-character mark. The largest 17cm (6 3.4in) diam. (4).
Provenance: From the collection of Barry C Tattenhall (1907-1989), thence by descent to the present owners. Barry Tattenhall was a well-regarded collector of Chinese porcelain and member of the Oriental Ceramic Society and lent porcelain to their 1950 Polychrome Exhibition and 1964 Qing Exhibition. David and Jellinek (2011, Provenance. Collectors, Dealers and Scholars: Chinese Ceramics in Britain and America) describe him as "ahead of his time with his interest in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Imperial porcelain". A number of pieces from his collection were sold at Sotheby's on 12 December 1989.
Edson Bradley (label). Edson Bradley (1852-1935) was a liquor millionaire whose Chinese ceramic collection was sold at the American Art Galleries in 1917 and Christie's, London in 1933.
清 單色釉洗《孫桂丸作》款
The work of Sun Guiwan is very rare. He was one of a number of artists during the Daoguang period creating vessels from carved porcelain including Wang Bingrong, Chen Guozhi and Li Yucheng. For more details see Elegance in Relief, Carved Porcelain from Jingdezhen of the 19th to Early 20th Centuries, 2006.
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