*A GRISAILLE ENAMELLED ‘FISHERMAN / YAN BIO DAO TU / 烟波钓徒’ PORCELAIN PLAQUE
SIGNED WANG YETING 汪野亭, ZI 字 OF WANG PING 汪平
China, Republic / Minguo period
The rectangular plaque is...

*A GRISAILLE ENAMELLED ‘FISHERMAN / YAN BIO DAO TU / 烟波钓徒’ PORCELAIN PLAQUE
SIGNED WANG YETING 汪野亭, ZI 字 OF WANG PING 汪平
China, Republic / Minguo period
The rectangular plaque is skilfully enamelled in grisaille and white with a fisherman on a sampan boat sailing a river in a snow-caped rocky landscape. It bears an inscription completed by a red seal signing it Wang Yeting (汪野亭), i.e. the Zi (字) or surname the renowned artist Wang Ping (汪平) and titling it “yān bō diào tú” (烟波钓徒), i.e. “A fisherman”. Encased within a wooden frame.
Dimensions:
- the sole plaque: 26,2 x 38 cm
- the plaque within its frame: 52,6 x 65 cm
Notes:
1. “Yān bō diào tú” (烟波钓徒) is a Chinese idiom which describes people who used to live in seclusion in fishing, i.e. who were hermits in fishing. It comes from the biograpy of Zhang Zhihe (張志和), a Chinese government official and Taoist scholar who lived during the 8th century, whom, after having served the Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty as an official, shared in a general pardon, and fled to the woods and mountains and became a wandering recluse, calling himself "the Old Fisherman of the Mists and Waters" (烟波钓叟).
2. Considered as one of the "Eight Friends of Zhushan" a small circle of educated porcelain painters in Jingdezhen during the Republic period, Wang Yeting (1884-1942) is renowned for his landscape paintings, particularly in the style of the four great landscape painters of the Qing dynasty known as the 'Four Wangs': Wang Shimin (1642-1715), Wang Hui (1632-1717), Wang Jian (1598-1677) and Wang Yuanqi (1642-1715). Wang Yeting painted many of his works in the blue-green landscape style, and plaques painted with a snow-caped landscape in the grisaille and white tones, such as the present example, appear to be less common.

“烟波钓徒”瓷盘
中国，现代/民国时期

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[INTERNET KEYWORDS] CHINA, CHINESE, QING, ANTIQUE, CERAMIC, PORCELAIN, PAINTING, SCROLL, JADE, DYNASTIE, JAPANESE, VIETNAMESE

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