Chinese Ceramics From The Meiyintang Collection

The meiyintang was widely hailed as one of the last great collections of chinese porcelain by european owners.

Chinese ceramics from the meiyintang collection.

Some years later regina krahl illustrated the dish in her excellent book chinese ceramics from the meiyintang collection vol. Yeo and jean martin in chinese blue and white ceramics p. The meiyintang collection represents one of the finest private collections of chinese ceramics ever assembled. On april 7th as part of its spring season in hong kong sotheby s will be selling 77 lots of imperial chinese porcelain from the meiyintang collection.

Known as the meiyintang collection it consists of nearly 2 000 pieces of porcelain and is currently under the control of. The meiyintang collection is one of the finest and largest private collections of chinese ceramics in the west. It is a collection that has been put together over more than half a century. The meiyintang collection was made up of 2 000 chinese ceramics from the neolithic to the late imperial periods and was one of the best european collections of chinese imperial porcelain.

Subsequently it entered the meiyintang collection and then was published in 1978 by s t. The meiyintang collection is a large privately owned collection of chinese porcelain consisting of about 2 000 pieces. Meiyintang the hall among rose beds is home to one of the world s finest and most comprehensive private collections of chinese ceramics a collection most museums can only dream of. The collection is currently controlled by stephen zuellig a swiss businessman and the heirs of his late brother gilbert zuellig.

Surprisingly the largest private collection of chinese porcelain is not in china but in europe. Assembled over some 40 years and covering every period from the yangshao culture to the qing period the collection has never been shown. Join nicolas chow international head of chinese ceramics and works of art and regina krahl sotheby s international research consultant and the curator of t. The collection was assembled over a period of greater than 50 years.

Volume three of the collection catalogue consisting of two books in a slip case discusses and illustrates nearly 600 chinese ceramics from the neolithic period to the yuan 1279 1368 many of which are today on display in the rietberg museum zurich. Free shipping on qualifying offers. Chinese porcelain has been a valued object throughout history and was a major export item of china in the past.