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196
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BASIN
Chenghua six-character mark, Tianqi/Chongzhen
The vessel stoutly potted with rounded sides rising
to an everted rim painted with gnarled prunus
branches, the interior painted with an archaistic
vase and square brushpots filled with a profusion
of blossoming peonies, lotus buds, and fruiting
pomegranate branches surrounded by hovering
butterflies, the exterior with butterflies and ducks
swimming in a lotus pond, Japanese box.
28cm (11in) diam. (2).
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

明天啟/崇禎 青花花卉紋折沿盆
青花「大明成化年製」楷書款

Provenance: a Japanese private collection

來源：日本私人舊藏

See an example illustrated by Geng Baocheng,
Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, pl.291,
also illustrated in colour pl.74; See another example
illustrated In Pursuit of the Dragon: Traditions and
Transitions in Ming Ceramics, An Exhibition from
the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1988, no.80;
see also a related bowl, Tianqi, with similar design
of flowers, illustrated by M.Butler, M.Medley and
S.Little, Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain
from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria Virginia,
1990, p.41, no.5.

197
AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE ‘THREE
KINGDOMS’ CIRCULAR PLAQUE
196 (two views) Late 16th/early 17th century
Well painted in vivid shades of blue with an general
sitting beside a burning candle in front of a large
screen, with his left arm resting on a cloth-draped
table, on which lies an open book, a woman kneels
towards him on a tiled terrace floor, with balustrade
and rockwork in the background, all within an
octagonal border of eight cartouches of various diaper
designs, mounted in a frame.
The plaque 28.2cm (11 1/2in) diam.
£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,000 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

十六世紀晚期/十七世紀早期 青花三國故事圖瓷板

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne
Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2002, no.66

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，
倫敦，2002年，編號66

The design of Guan Yu is taken from the novel The
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo Yanyi).
During the Ming dynasty, illustrations in woodblock
printed books were copied by painters onto ceramics.
For a related bowl in the Percival David Collection, in
the British Museum, see S.Pierson, Design as Signs:
Decoration and Chinese Ceramics, London, 2001,
197 p.60, no.56.

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