USD 6,000 - USD 8,000

USD 7,500

2008年9月17日

纽约

佳士得(CHRISTIE’S)

SUN XINGWU, BEIJING, DATED TO THE WUXU YEAR (1898)
Of flattened form with a flat lip and flat oval foot surrounded by a footrim, painted in ink and watercolors with a continuous scene of a village on the two banks of a river in pre-dawn moonlight, with watch-tower and busy inn, its walls inscribed ‘Comfortable lodgings for merchants and travelers,‘ its inhabitants coming to life early in the morning with one man trying to coax a reluctant donkey from its stable onto the dirt road while another carries two panniers on a pole and two others greet each other, further from the inn a man leads two Bactrian camels and another figure mounted on a donkey across a bridge, followed on foot by an attendant after leaving the open gates of the village, with cockerels atop two haystacks behind the inn, the bottle inscribed with a poetic excerpt in draft script ‘The rooster crows when the humble inn is [still bathed] in moonlight. The frost-covered plank-bridge is [already marked] with foot-prints,‘ followed by ‘Offered by Tinggui in the year wuxu, for the assessment of the honorable Ruiting,‘ with two illegible seals, dendritic agate stopper with vinyl collar
(6.15 cm.) high
来源:
Hugh M. Moss Ltd., London, 1976