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A SET OF FOUR FAMILLE-ROSE
‘FIGURAL’ PLAQUES, SIGNED ZIXU
REPUBLIC PERIOD
each " nely painted with a garden scene depicting
one of the legendary beauties in Chinese
tradition, including Diao Chan, Lu Meier, Hong
Funü, and Ma Gu, accompanied by a poetic
inscription and a red seal, three plaques dated to
the guiyou year, corresponding to 1933, framed
(4)
Height 29? in., 74.5 cm; Width 7? in., 19.1 cm
The literati school of porcelain painting gained
immense popularity during the Republic period
(1912-1949). With Jingdezhen serving as the
center of production, several generations of
great porcelain painters emerged. Of those
artists, there is no record of one by the name of
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Zixu, who signed the present plaques. However,
the paintings seem to possess stylistic traits
in! uenced by Wang Xiaotang (1885-1924)
and Wang Dafan (1888-1961), who were both
porcelain masters of the early 20th century
and renowned for " gural painting. Wang Dafan
studied under Wang Xiaotang, and later became
one of the ‘Eight Friends of Zhushan’. Compare
a set of four famille-rose plaques by Wang
Xiaotang, in the Muwentang Collection, illustrated
in Simon Kwan, Chinese Porcelain of the Republic
Period, Hong Kong, 2008, pl. 8; see also a plaque
by Wang Dafan, ibid., pl. 70.
其一題識：
舌底氤氳似吐蓮 馨香端不藉龍涎
未能了得煙花債 空坐蒲團二十年
癸酉夏五月上澣 子虛作於珠山
其二題識：
自採百花工釀酒 不知塵世變滄桑
倣新羅山人筆意 癸酉夏月子虛寫於珠山
其三題識：
不惜此身圖國賊 峨眉應是漢功臣
子虛作於珠山之客次
其四題識：
紅粧侍立捲輕羅 具眼英雄智若何
籠絡虬髯偏有術 相公才少妾才多
時在癸酉年夏五月子虛作
