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Chinese Ceramics: The Superb Collection of Alan L. and Jacqueline B. Stuart From the mid 1980s onward, Alan and Jackie Stuart assembled a superb collection of Chinese ceramics ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Including nearly 100 pieces, the collection boasts masterworks from the Tang through the Qing. The Stuarts displayed their collection in the public areas of their former Greenwich, CT, home, the early Chinese ceramics artfully grouped in the foyer, the later porcelains elegantly arrayed in the dining room. They acquired their ceramics from leading dealers and auction houses in New York, London, and Hong Kong. Born in Manhattan, Alan Lincoln Stuart (1936–2024) grew up in a beautiful art-filled home and a world brimming with renowned museums and cultural institutions which inspired his early interest in art. After graduating from New York’s Ethical Culture Fieldston Schools, Alan completed his bachelor’s degree at Brown University, Providence, RI, majoring in art history. A respected figure in the world of investment and finance, Alan was co-founder of Stuart Brothers, which had a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. After the firm was sold, Alan founded a boutique investment advisory firm that he ran for many years. He also contributed his financial expertise to serve as chairman of the Financial Advisory Board of the Town of Harrison, New York and later, as a member of the Financial Advisory Board of Blue Hill Hospital in Blue Hill, Maine. Born in upstate New York, Jacqueline Barkan Stuart received a bachelor’s degree at Barnard College of Columbia University and a master’s degree in Public Law and Government at Columbia University. Later, Jackie received a J.D. degree from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and practiced law in the New York office of a major international law firm. Alan began collecting art while still in college and continued to expand the collection throughout his life. Together with his wife Jackie, they filled their home with art from many different cultures and chronological periods, from ancient to modern, but with a notable focus on Chinese ceramics. Though they collected jointly, Jackie took the lead in assembling the collection of Chinese ceramics. A quick study, she rapidly acquired a specialist’s knowledge, developed a connoisseur’s eye, and led the couple in assembling a surpassing collection. Alan and Jackie served on the Asian Art Collections Committee of the Harvard Art Museums; in fact, from 2012 until recently, Jackie served as the committee’s chairman. Most impressive among the Stuarts’ Song-dynasty ceramics are the Ding-ware ewer from the early twelfth century and the similarly dated Jun-ware bowl with sumptuous, robin’s-egg blue glaze; equally impressive are the large, black-glazed jar with vertical white ribs and the small, black-glazed jar with floral decoration in cut-glaze technique. The early fifteenth-century, Yongle-period charger, with a barbed rim and a floral arabesque on its floor, commands pride of place among the Ming ceramics. A late seventeenth-century, flat, circular dish beautifully embellished with landscape décor bridges the transition from Ming to Qing-dynasty blue-and-white wares, while a large dish with floral sprays reserved in white on a blue ground perfectly demonstrates the refined aesthetic vision and technical perfection of Yongzheng-period potters. The exquisite clair-de-lune brush washer represents Kangxi-period monochrome-glazed porcelains at their finest, just as the small pomegranate-form bottle showcases Qianlong-period, celadon-glazed porcelains at their very best. Among Qing enameled porcelains, the Yongzheng meiping vase with dragon-and-phoenix décor is superb, while the Qianlong-period moon flask with dragon-and-pearl decoration and the hundred-deer jar rank amongst the very finest examples of their types. Though comparatively numerous during the mid-twentieth century, comprehensive American collections of Chinese ceramics assembled by knowledgeable, discerning collectors are rare today, particularly collections with works that span the chronological range from Neolithic to Qing. Among the few such collections existing today, the Stuart Collection features a superb selection of ceramics not only of the highest quality but of great beauty and importance. Robert D. Mowry 毛瑞Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus, Harvard Art Museums, and Senior Consultant, Christie’s 哈佛大學藝術博物館亞洲部榮譽主任暨佳士得高級顧問Property from the Stuart Collection
A CARVED QINGBAI FOLIATE BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
细节
7 5⁄8 in. (19.4 cm.) diam., cloth box
来源
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 2008, no. 4264c.
Stuart Collection, no. 142.
Stuart Collection, no. 142.
荣誉呈献
Rufus Chen (陳嘉安)
Head of Sale, AVP, Specialist
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