Lot 230

Minor old wear, and some small and very fine age cracks. Otherwise no visible faults or damage


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Commissioned by Cheung Yin/Cheung Yick Tung (dates unknown), Hong Kong.
Collection of Wong Tse Ching (1886-1962).
Given by Wong Tse Ching to Law Ming Shek in 1937.
Collection of Law Ming Shek (1899-1940), and thence by descent.

Law Ming Shek (1899-1940) was a wealthy Hong Kong and Canton entrepreneur and merchant, and an avid collector of Chinese books and antique curios, including scholar art, seals, ink stones, porcelain, and works of calligraphy and painting. His impressive collection registers reveal that he associated and exchanged collectables with such renowned Canton connoisseurs as "Wong Tse Ching" (a.k.a Wong Siew Chan/Wong Siew Chin) (1886-1962) and Luó Yuánjué (1891-1965). The scroll pot offered herein is one of numerous gifts the former bestowed on him. Much of Wong Tse Ching's outstanding collection was later donated, in 1956 and 1999 respectively, to the Guangzhou Municipal
Culture Bureau and the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The inscription is a lyrical depiction from 223 or 224A.D. titled 'Goddess of the Luo', carved after a very famous calligraphic model by Jin Dynasty calligrapher Wang Xianzhi.

The seal on the base was the collector's studio seal mark of Cheung Yin. The original seal was carved by the renowned Cantonese deaf-mute carver Yu Chung Ka.