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A VERY FINE CHINESE YELLOW GROUND LANTERN VASE JIAQING MARK & PERIOD

The vase is decorated with an abundance of scrolling lotus on a yellow ground, with two fixed-ring taotie elephant mask handles in blue enamel placed adeptly on the shoulders. The base with an iron red Jiaqing seal mark and of the period.

Date: JIAQING Period (1796-1820)
H: Approximately 10 in., 25.5 cm

PROVENANCE
Property of a Lady
Christies London, Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles Part II, 13 MAY 2016, Lot 739.
A Private American Corporate Collection
A Private American Collection
Alice Boney (1901-1988) Collection

EXHIBITED & CATALOGUED
The Joselyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 2008
The Exhibition & Catalogue entitled:
Elegance of the Qing Court: Refections of a Dynasty Through Its Art, where it was exhibition article no. 59.
Published in this book: Catalogue: Elegance of the Qing Court, Item #59.
Published online at Joslyn Teachers Resources: Elegance of the Qing Court, Item #59.

NOTES
Alice Boney was born in 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With money she inherited from her industrialist grandfather, she plunged herself into investments in the art world. She eventually married a prominent Dutch art dealer. The couple opened a New York gallery, and in 1926 they brought a shipload of Chinese tomb sculptures from the Tang Dynasty (618 to 906 A.D.) to New York.

For 16 years, from the late 1950s through the 1960s, Ms. Boney lived in Japan, in a Japanese-style house. Upon her return to the States, she moved to New York City and lived in an elegantly furnished apartment at 535 Park Avenue, across the street from the Regency Hotel.

Ms. Boney was considered by many knowledable experts to be one of the world's leading dealers in Oriental art. She mentored such famous luminaries as the oriental art dealer Robert H. Ellsworth, who began working with Boney in 1947. Ellsworth dedicated his book on Oriental furniture to her.

Ms. Boney worked closely with the Oriental Art Department at the Philadelphia Art Museum, where many of her Oriental works of art were exhibited. The prestigious Hong Kong art magazine, Orientations, wrote an article about her and her famous collections. They referred to her as "the doyenne of Oriental art dealers". They further wrote, "In the 65 years of her career, Alice Boney did what few women of her time dared to do," it said. "She entered the male-dominated world of Oriental art, and she prospered."

In 2008, the Joselyn Art Museum held the exhibition, Elegance of the Qing Court: Refections of a Dynasty Through Its Art at the Josyln Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, where many beautiful Chinese works of art were exhibited, including the yellow Jiaqing vase presented here. The following is an excerpt from the museums press release:

The exhibition spans the entire dynasty, presenting over 200 porcelain, metal, lacquer, textile, ivory, and jade objects, some produced under the supervision of the court and in the imperial workshops. The objects, many created for the court or its officials, offer visitors the opportunity to experience the magnificence of Qing creativity at its finest, contrasted by items produced for commerce as the dynasty drew to a close. Included are examples of porcelain from the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, with their remarkable glazes and enameling; textiles demonstrating court dress; furniture from the Summer Palace; and smaller objects, such as belt buckles and abstinence plaques. A highlight is the 18th-century, eight-panel, carved red lacquer screen recently acquired by Joslyn Art Museum, which will, for the first time, be placed in the context of Qing dynasty decorative arts. The exhibition will be accompanied by the publication Elegance of the Qing Court: Reflections of a Dynasty Through Its Art.

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