A GRISAILLE-DECORATED BLACK-GROUND BOTTLE VASE, QING DYNASTY China, dated 1890. Decorated en grisaille in a painterly manner with a continuous depiction of the legend of Han Xiangzi, the immortal playing the flute in the clouds. Below we see his uncle and aunt accompanied by servants, riding a donkey, crossing the Blue Pass. Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence by descent in the same family. Weifert was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Condition: Fine condition with some old wear, drilling to base, one small glaze flake at the lip. Weight: 2,826 g Dimensions: Height 39.5 cm Twenty-character inscription to backside, one seal. Dated winter month of the Geng Yin Year (1890). Artist signature Zhang Shengxin. Poem about riding in the snow and attribution to the painting style of the Yuan Dynasty master Xiaoshan. Auction result comparison: For a closely related vase see Bonham's Hong Kong in Exceptional Chinese Art from a European Private Collection, 3 Dez 2015, lot 9, sold for HKD $85,000 黑地墨彩飛雪圖賞瓶，清代 中國，庚寅1890。黑地墨彩描繪林中馬上人物場景圖。 來源：Georg Weifert (1850-1937)收藏，同一家族保存至今 。Weifert曾爲塞爾維亞中央銀行大班以及塞爾維亞、克羅地亞與斯洛文尼亞聯邦銀行大班。 品相：品相良好，一些老磨損，底部有鑽孔，唇部有一道小釉面開片。 重量：2,826 克 尺寸：高39.5 厘米 拍賣結果比較：一個相似的賞瓶于2015年12月3日香港邦翰思《歐洲私人收藏中的中國藝術》拍場第9號拍品，成交價HKD $85,000.