China News Service, Hong Kong, November 21 (Reporter Suo Youwei) Bonhams Hong Kong’s autumn auction is about to start. The reporter learned during the auction preview on the 21st that the blue and white glaze with red sea water, cloud and dragon patterns in turquoise and green land in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty that had disappeared from the market for ten years The moon-holding bottle will reproduce the "Jianghu" in this auction.
According to reports, the moon-holding bottle, also known as the treasure moon bottle, got its name because the belly of the bottle looks like a full moon. Its history can be traced back to the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It was popular in the Western Xia Dynasty. On the other side, it has a very ethnic style, and it evolved into a decoration in the Ming Dynasty, and there were many imitations in the Kangxi and Yong Dynasties of the Qing Dynasty.
The blue and white underglaze red dragon pattern holding the moon vase made by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty is already rare, and among them, the turquoise green space is the most rare. Currently, there are only two examples known to exist, and this is one of them.
The moon-holding bottle that appeared in the Bonhams Autumn Auction has a solid white and smooth body, the bottom of the bottle is covered with light green glaze, and the whole body is covered with turquoise green space. It comes from the collection of "Huaihaitang" in Hong Kong. After ten years of extinction, it has now reappeared in "Jianghu". 18 million to 25 million Hong Kong dollars.
Another eye-catching lot is Zhang Daqian's "Avalokitesvara on Water and Moon at Dunhuang".
According to reports, Zhang Daqian once devoted himself to copying murals in Dunhuang. When he visited the Yulin Grottoes in Anxi, he was deeply moved by a wall of "Shuiyue Guanyin" from Xixia.
The paintings that appeared in the second autumn auction were rigorously hooked and dyed. A large number of lines were double-lined and painted with gold. The auspicious clouds and the sea were even painted with a large area of gold powder. The colors are dazzling and gorgeous as new.
It has been nearly 30 years since the painting appeared in the auction market in the 1990s, and the auction estimate is HK$10 million to HK$20 million.
In addition, Wu Hufan's Chinese painting "A Picture of Ancient Pines on Stream and Mountain" from a private collection in Hong Kong, and Zhang Daqian's six screens in running script "Three Poems of Lin Bu in Running Script" from a private collection in the Netherlands will also appear together.
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