A large cylindrical 'landscape' porcelain vase with a poem inscription

Description:

China, denoted Wang Yeting, Hongxian mark, Republic period
H. 52 cm
'Tongping'-form vase with a columnar body that transitions over a flat shoulder into a slender neck and an elegantly flared rim. Decorated with fine polychrome overglaze painting. The neck and foot decorated with delicate, gilt-heightened and black ornamental bands in a Western Baroque style. The shoulder is flanked by two applied lion-mask handles with rings. A masterfully executed continuous panorama (Tongjing) depicting a mountainous river landscape in finely gradated shades of blue and green, interspersed with staffage figures, sailboats, and a pagoda. The motif flows seamlessly around the entire cylinder without a discernible beginning or end. The body features a long, poetic inscription in black calligraphy, concluding with the artist’s signature: "The lay Buddhist Zhushan Chuanfang emulates the style of Master Shigu [Wang Hui]. Painted by Yeting Wang Ping at the Pingshan Caotang studio in Zhushan", accompanied by two red-enamel artist seals: "Yeting" and "Shuhua". The base bears a four-character mark in iron-red on a gilt ground within a double square border, written in seal script: Hongxian nian zhi.
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia, according to the owner, acquired from a German art dealer - Minimal signs of age and wear on the unglazed foot ring; a small firing crack on the inside of the foot ring; a tiny chip in the glaze to the outside of the rim; otherwise good condition
Wang Yeting (1884-1942), born Wang Ping, was a leading member of the legendary artist group known as the "Eight Friends of Zhushan" and is considered the most significant landscape painter on porcelain of the early 20th century. He revolutionized Chinese ceramic art by seamlessly adapting the free, poetic style of classical literati ink painting to porcelains